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A fourth vow is part of religious vows that are taken by members of some religious institutes in the Catholic Church, apart from the traditional vows based on the evangelical counsels: poverty, chastity and obedience or their equivalents stability, conversion of manners, and obedience.
An additional vow usually is an expression of the order or the congregation's charism or particular insertion in the apostolic field of the Church.