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Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi lived in a Josephite marriage after they had a family of four children. Josephite marriage, also known as spiritual marriage, chaste marriage, [1] and continent marriage, is a religiously motivated practice in which a man and a woman marry and live together without engaging in sexual activity.
For Peter Lombard and the school of Paris, marriage contracted by mutual consent alone is a true and complete marriage, absolutely indissoluble, and, between Christians, a sacrament. This second theory had the support of early Christian writers, received the approval of Sovereign Pontiffs, particularly of Alexander III, and soon prevailed.
A self-uniting marriage is one in which the couple are married without the presence of a third-party officiant.Although non-denominational, this method of getting married is sometimes referred to as a "Quaker marriage", after the marriage practice of the Religious Society of Friends, for which see Quaker wedding.
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic religious order founded in Australia; Josephite (Latter Day Saints), any adherent tracing the Restorationist priesthood through Joseph Smith III; Josephites, followers of Joseph Volotsky, Russian monk who advocated the church's ownership of land, social activity and charity
However, the Catholic Church forbade clandestine marriage at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), which required all marriages to be announced in a church by a priest. In 1566, the edict of the Council of Trent was proclaimed denying Catholics any form of marriage not executed in a religious ceremony before a priest and two witnesses.
The Institute of the Josephites of Belgium (Latin: Institutum Iosephitarum Gerardimontensium), commonly called Josephites is a Roman Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men devoted to the Christian education of the youth It was founded in Ghent Belgium by Canon van Crombrugghe, in 1817.
In Catholic canon law, there are a number of requirements for a valid Catholic marriage. However, a Catholic marriage is considered valid unless and until it is proved otherwise. [1] In consequence, children born as a result of a marriage which is found to be void are considered legitimate, and the spouses cannot marry others without first ...