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 276
its appointed hour, no matter where he might happento be. Instead of the love songs formerly heard at all hours, and in allplaces, says St. Jerome in a letter to his friend Marcellinus, the labourerat the plough hums an Alleluia, the reaper, bathed in perspiration, repeatshis psalmody as he rests… … Fig. 175.—The Last Supper, symbolically represented as the first eucharistic sacrifice. Jesus, sur-rounded by his disciples, and with John, his favourite disciplo, leaning on his bosom, is adminis-tering his body and blood under the form of bread and wine, to another disciple kneeling in frontof…
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