Sodality

A sodality is an association of persons. The Latin word sodalitas means friendship, camaraderie. The single member, Sodale. Both religious brotherhoods and other traditional associations (eg bachelor, contactors) are called sodalities.

Antiquity

The Titii Sodales were an ancient cult priest community.

Humanistic sodalities

In humanism, the Sodalitates litterariae were taught scientific associations. Conrad Celtis founded in Krakow 1488, in Hungary and Vienna in 1494 and in Germany in 1500 several sodalities.

Catholic sodalities

In the early modern Jesuits founded Marian sodalities in honor of Mary. Other Catholic movements and communities describe their members as Sodalists, translated: " companion, friend, comrade ," from the Latin synonym sodalis. The term is found in:

• The Christian Life Community, Jesuit lay organization
• The Schoenstatt movement, see also Mater Ter Admirabilis

Itemization

• Roman Catholic movement
• Renaissance humanism