—The general idea of lay people affiliated to religious orders, as seen in the Benedictine Oblates (q.v.) orconfraters(Taunton, “Black Monks of St. Benedict”,London, 1897, I, 60-63; for Norbertines cf.Hurter, “Papst Innocenz III”, Schaffhausen, 1845, IV, 148), is too natural ...