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Syncelli
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14383b.htmA name which in the early Church was given to those monks or clerics who lived in the same room with their bishops, and whose duty it was to be witnesses to the purity of their lives or to perform the daily spiritual exercises in common with them.
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