Volunteers from the congregation also serve as lay eucharistic ministers, lectors and ushers. Women also serve as lectors and extraordinary ministers. Lectors also had many liturgical functions to perform. Later on, the lectors became chanters, and their duties were given to the other ministers. On the Pope's orders, some pupils of Constantine and Methodius were ordained priests or lectors. Those in first year are instituted as Lectors and often receive Candidacy in solemn rites. During the 13th century it increased in importance and was occupied by Lectors and Maestri. Some of the lectors continued to speak to the cigar workers in other ways. There are about 25 members in the Lectors Group, the majority being female. In the 15th century the house of studies became important because of his academic lectors. Lectors were well respected and often highly educated. D.C. She and her maternal grandmother are lectors at their Catholic Church. The lectors were hired and fired by the "tabaqueros", not the factory owners. They felt that the lectors stirred up their workforce by fostering "radical ideas".