What were tertiaries?
A) Members of a three-tiered order of mendicant monks
B) Laypeople who adopted the practices of the friars while leading normal lives
C) Preliminary hearings of inquisitions
D) Men who founded convents for their daughters

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Tertiaries were laypeople who adopted the practices of the friars while continuing to lead their normal, secular lives. They were associated with the Third Orders of various mendicant communities, living out religious commitments without becoming monks or nuns.

What Were Tertiaries