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Article THE ROMAN COLLEGIA. ← Page 3 of 8 →
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The Roman Collegia.
" Though burial and parentation were the paramount objects of these unions of cultores , they were not always their sole- aim . Sometimes , though the college was professedly funerum causa , there was comprehended within its provisions a scheme of mutual assurance , or the furtherance of some pecuniary interest , such as our benefit clubs
now occupy themselves with . * But for all that the college was still fimenim causa , and the colleagues were mltores of some specified deity . " Even when Christianity had come in , colleges funerum causa were as cherished by the Christians as they had been by the Pagans . The Christians utilized them for the purpose of holding land wherein to
bury sodales of their own faith , f Nothing was changed in the constitution of these colleges save the religious tendencies of the acts performed through their agencies . Burial was as dear to the faith-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Roman Collegia.
" Though burial and parentation were the paramount objects of these unions of cultores , they were not always their sole- aim . Sometimes , though the college was professedly funerum causa , there was comprehended within its provisions a scheme of mutual assurance , or the furtherance of some pecuniary interest , such as our benefit clubs
now occupy themselves with . * But for all that the college was still fimenim causa , and the colleagues were mltores of some specified deity . " Even when Christianity had come in , colleges funerum causa were as cherished by the Christians as they had been by the Pagans . The Christians utilized them for the purpose of holding land wherein to
bury sodales of their own faith , f Nothing was changed in the constitution of these colleges save the religious tendencies of the acts performed through their agencies . Burial was as dear to the faith-