The article discusses the confraternities recorded in the protocols of the Ljubljana Diocese of the 17th and 18th centuries. Confraternities are most commonly mentioned in these protocols with regard to their foundation and their confirmation, or with regard to the permissions needed by confraternities to perform pious acts or organize festivities and processions, to build altars and chapels – which is of particular interest for art historians – and similar occasions (mass foundations and legacies, synodal and visitation record transcripts, transcripts of bishops’ reports to Rome, related ecclesiastical and state decrees, licences to sell religious items etc.). Although the protocols mention over seventy confraternities, there are still some that were founded or were active within the Diocese of Ljubljana at that time that do not appear in the protocols. Some of those obviously date back to the Middle Ages, while some just never asked for official confirmation despite the fact that this was against church regulations.
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Besides the existing baroque brotherhoods, Maria Theresa introduced the brotherhood of perpetual adoration of St Corpus Christi, the members of which committed themselves to the devout worhisp of the Blessed Sacrament once a year, for one hour, assigned to them by a draw. This kind of brotherhood was founded at Črnuče already in 1773. The brotherhood died down in the time of the emperor Joseph II who did not highly regard brotherhoods. They were not revived until the 19th century.
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