Brothers
a term applied to the members of monastic and military orders, as being united in one family. Lay brothers were an inferior class of monks employed in monasteries as servants.
Though not in holy orders, they were bound by monastic rules.
BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, a Roman Catholic Order formed by the Abbé La Salle at Rheims, and confirmed by Benedict XIII. in 1725.
Its members are not allowed to enter the priesthood, but devote themselves to teaching the poor. There are branches of the Order in the United States as well as in most European countries.