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Penitential Associations: The Origins of Civic Democracy | Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.

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Converco Converts and Penitents

The mediaeval penance culture inspired this creation, although its ts are much older. During the gregorian reform, some lay people in northern italy were making seeking a more intense christian life. The word converco originally described a layman who had atattached himself to a monastic order and made a conversion of life. By 12 hundred, these lay individuals were calling themselves converse converts or penitent penitent.

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