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CHANTRY SCHOOLS
Places for the education of children, in pre-Reformation times, attached to endowed chantries. In England most of the schools operated by the government after secession from Rome had been former chantry schools.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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