FRATERNITY OF THE TRINITY, a religious society instituted at Rome by St Philip Neri in 1548. These religious were appointed to take care of the pilgrims who came to visit the tombs of St Peter and St Paul. The society originally consisted of only fifteen religious, who assembled on the first Sunday of every month, in the church of St Saviour del Campo, to hear the exhortations of the founder; after whose death pope Paul IV. gave the fraternity the church of St Benedict, near which they have since built a large hospital for the reception of pilgrims. The fraternity is one of the most considerable in Rome, and most of the nobility of both sexes have been members thereof.