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> To Brenda Cook and others:  Using the grade of the oblate,
> Benedictine houses and the military orders normally looked after
> pensioners for education and retirement as well as the dying.  The
> system amounts to a general system of old age care and pensions as
> well as for the education of children

John,
Is this what is sometimes called a "corrody"?
Jim Bugslag

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