This thesis paper highlights an overview of the emergence of fraternities as significant and organized folk associations within the Christian community, especially focusing on the Dalmatian circle to which the fraternity of the Holy Trinity Majkovi donji is bound. By comparing the activities and influence of fraternities from the Middle Ages to the present day, it turned out to have a great impact on society in urban and rural areas. However, fraternities are not exclusively a phenomenon of earlier periods when they represented the whole community, they promoted economic development and played a very important social role. They are still active today. Throughout the thesis, an attempt was made to understand to what extent and in what way the existence and participation in the Fraternity of the Holy Trinity has had an impact on the daily lives of the locals of Majkovi donji in the past as well as today. Inevitably, the topics related to the factors that shape modern Dubrovnik's rural environment are also touched upon deruralization, depopulation and loss of economic significance, which are placed in relation to the significance of the Fraternity of the Holy Trinity and its role in preserving traditional social customs, people's identity and community cohesion.