Ecclesiastical Corporation of Hospitaliers

The Ecclesiastical Corporation of Hospitaliers, subordinate to the Congregation for the Protection of the Faithful of the United Ecclesiastical Corporation of Benacia, is a body established by an edict of the Council of Araxion on 25.XV.1715 AN to minister to the needs of those subjects of the Benacian Union who, lacking the essential qualifications of merit or guild affiliation, were denied access to statutory healthcare provision.

• Any subject without merit, who comes to any hospital or charitable foundation supported by the corporation, as a supplicant, is by definition a sinner outside the grace of the Highest Divinity. It follows therefore, that the supplicant, as part of the terms for their treatment, must undergo a suitable penance. The penance is to be decided, on a case by case basis, by a panel of case three review officers, including a medical professional and an ecclesiastical officer. Typically the penance will be tailored to the abilities of the penitent, but will consist of prayer, fasting, a period of service, the payment of an appropriately moderate fee, and the mortification of the flesh. Any mortification being deferred necessarily until such time as it can be assured that it will not undo the benefits of any treatment that the penitent has received.