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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Benefice
		In fact, as Innocent III declares, the sole purpose of the foundation of benefices was to enable the church to have at her command clerics who might devote themselves freely to works of religion.
		Manual benefices are not benefices in the strict sense, since their distinctive note is that appointments to them are revocable at the will of the collating authority.
		Before the Council of Trent a simple benefice could lawfully be conferred on a cleric as early as his seventh year, but since that council the recipient of a simple benefice must be in his fourteenth year, and for double benefices the age of twenty-four years completed is always required.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02473c.htm (3212 words)

	John Calvin [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Normally, this would have worked against his chances of receiving a thorough education,but through the good fortune of his father's professional relationship to a family of the local nobility, he received a private education with that family's children.
		Having distinguished himself at an early age, Calvin was deemed worthy of receiving the support of a benefice, a church-granted stipend, at the age of 12, so as to support him in his studies.
		Although normally benefices were granted as payment for work for the church, either present or in the future, there is no record that Calvin ever performed any duties for this position.
	www.iep.utm.edu /c/calvin.htm (2876 words)

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