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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Endowment |
 | | An endowment is a property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated for the support of any person, institution, or object, as a student, professorship, school, hospital. |
 | | A considerable portion of the foundations thus established in England was squandered or confiscated during the Reformation of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth, while the remainder, by virtue of the Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy, was transferred to the Anglican Church, which still retains it. |
 | | A catalogue or table of these obligations assumed by a church is to be posted conspicuously in the sacristy a general one for the diocese is reserved in the chancery office while among the parochial books is one in which the satisfaction of these obligations is noted. |
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