Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 275
morning, at the third, the sixth, and the ninth hoursof the day, at vespers, and at cock-crow, that is to say, at dawn. But thefaithful, who were long prevented by persecution from openly assembling insacred buildings, at first offered up their prayers in private, or perhapssurrounded only by their… … Fig. 174.—Silver-gilt Cruet, showing its different sides; on one side is depicted the head of Christ, with a nimbus, and on the other that of St. Peter. (First or Second Century.) Museum of the Vatican. were so zealously attached to their psalmody, that none would have willinglymissed saying it at…
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