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Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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th with music (Six-teenth Century).—Collection of M. Ach. Jubinal, Paris. imitation of the mystery, tongues of fire fell from the roof, or a shower ofred rose-leaves took place ; and doves, emblems of the Holy Ghost, wereallowed to flutter about the church. At high festivals the mass was followed by the ceremony of the offering,at which all present were expected to deposit a coin in a plate, and kiss theemblem of goodwill presented to them (Fig. 198). This offering was inmemory of an ancient custom. The offerings, which in the primitiveChurch the faithful were accustomed to make every day, consisted ofbread and wine. They were placed before the altar at the commencementof the second part of the mass, after the reading of the Gospel and of theApostles Creed. The capitularies of the early Frankish kings prescribedthat neophytes were to offer bread and wine at least every Sunday. Untilthe eighth or ninth century, some authors assert that for the sacrifice of the LITURGY AND CEREMONIES.
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Fig. 200.—Altar of the ancient Cathedral of Arras (Thirteenth Century), now destroyed ; froma picture of the Sixteenth Century preserved in the sacristy of the Cathedral of Arras.—Theangels on the top of the columns bear the instruments of the Passion. Along the summit ofthe screen are placed six reliquaries containing the relics of different saints; they form aretinue for Jesus, the chief of all martyrs. The tabernacle is not a heavy square case, but asuspended casket borne by an angel, who appears to descend from heaven. Higher up threeangels collect in the mysterious cup of the Grail the blood which flows from the feet andhands of the crucified Jesus. mass, either leavened or unleavened bread was used indifferently ; but sincethat period leavened bread has only been in use in the Eastern Church.From this epoch, also, the offered bread was no longer used except for LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. distribution to the people, as a symbol of the communion, and it then took thename of eulog

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