Medii Aevi Kalendarium Or Dates Charters And Customs of the Middle Ages Wit
Medii Aevi Kalendarium Or Dates Charters And Customs of the Middle Ages Wit
R T Robert Thomas Hampson
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Hospinian says that there is no particular mention of this fes- tival among the more ancient authors ; and that it was comprised under those six or seven holidays which were anciently celebrated, without being made a peculiar solemnity — though Polydore Vergil, without any authority, ranks it among the festivals instituted by the Apostles. According to the Liber Pontificalis, Leo II, in 682, commanded that this festival should be held in April. Nicholas I, about 860, ordered the " Gloria in exc...elsis" to be sung at mass (Trithem. De Script. ) ; but Durandus attributes that order to Boniface (But. Div. Off. , I. VI, c. 75). In many places the altars are washed with wine and water, and ornamented with boughs, particularly of GLOSSARY. 159 savin (lb. , c. 16). This is in imitation of the pagan ceremony called La- vatio Matris De&m, in which the statues of the gods were washed (Arnob. Contra Gentes, I. VII. ) In some place, the pavement of the church was scoured. After vespers, two acolytes, in black cassocks, having removed the ornaments, cover them with black cloth, place crowns upon them, veil the images, and extinguish the candles one by one, except that in the mid- dle, which is preserved in the window or a closet, to light the others again (Hospin.
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