 The members wore clothing made from white hessian fabric ( Italian : <unk> ) . It had a small figure on the left shoulder : a vermilion chalice and an image of Christ with open arms . The confraternity was committed to provide a doctor and barber to the poor of the parish , and each Holy Thursday in the church it exhibited a wax sculpture of the crucified Christ . An annual procession went to Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Pigna , the Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace and finally to St. Peter 's . In 1578 Pope Gregory XIII ( r . 1572 – 85 ) made the association an archconfraternity . The association 's duties and privileges increased ; each year beginning in 1580 , the brothers gave four poor parish girls a white dress and twenty @-@ five scudi as a dowry . In 1590 , Pope Sixtus V ( <unk> – 90 ) gave the archconfraternity the privilege of setting free each year a person condemned to death .. 
