sodalists

Updated: June 18, 2025

Why, the boys could not help loving a boy like him. Sodalities were rare in those days; but the college boys of Vienna had a sodality, devoted to the honor of our Lady, and under the patronage of Saint Barbara. At their meetings; the sodalists in turn had to address their companions, give a little talk about the Blessed Virgin, or on some virtue, or the like.

William Terence Kane - For Greater Things; the story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka

Costello had just sent Dan home for one. How on earth could the Male Quartette from Tower Town find its way to the hall? Mrs. Costello had promised to tell Mr. C. to send a carriage for them. She came up to the Children of Mary's booth about five o'clock. "Well, if you girls ain't the wonders!" she said to the tired little Sodalists, in a tone of unbounded admiration and surprise.

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby

In a college like this, he said at length, there is one boy or perhaps two or three boys whom God calls to the religious life. Such a boy is marked off from his companions by his piety, by the good example he shows to others. He is looked up to by them; he is chosen perhaps as prefect by his fellow sodalists.

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man