Confraternities were a part of a movement that granted nuns permission to administer the sacraments in places where there were no priests present.
These corporate organizations, which are sometimes known as "brotherhoods," were found in many different religious traditions. They Confraternities modeled lay believers' devotional and benevolent lives after the concept of ritual kinship. They had between a dozen and a sacraments hundred members and were present in almost every urban area as well as many rural communities. Venetian confraternities increased from 120 to 387 by the year 1700.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, about 20% of the people in Confraternities Antwerp belonged to a brotherhood, a percentage that could be found in other European cities. In Spain, where a 1771 official census revealed 25,038 brotherhoods, nearly all rural villages had sacraments confraternities by the late eighteenth century, including 70% of rural parishes in Trier.
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