ICAL CUSTOMS 63 1769 that, according to ancient custom, the altar should have only two lights, except on the three or four principal feasts in the year.1 Such also was the custom at Lyons at the end of the seventeenth century,2 though I do not know what the written law was. In the middle ages there… … Fig 5. — From a Pontificale Romanum printed at Venice in 1520, fol. 222, showing : — i. The Altar at a Pontifical High Mass, with only two lights upon it ; ii. Nogradin ; [iii. No cross.] two altars in Westminster Abbey in 1532 (Figs. 6 and 7) ; and even at the end of the seventeenth century at…
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