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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 304

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s, pirates,&c. A deacon read the bull from the balcony (loggia, an open tribunal) of LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 235 St. Peters in the presence of the pope, who, as a symbol of anathema, dasheda lighted torch of yellow wax into the open court of the Vatican, which theassistants hastened to… … Fig. 193.—Legend of the passage of the viaticum across a wooden bridge, at Utrecht, in 1277.Some dancers having allowed the host to pass without discontinuing their dances, the bridgesuddenly gave way and two hundred persons were drowned in the river.—Fac-simile of anEngraving upon Wood by P.…

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