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 307
ches. It was, as a rule, customary that the ashesemployed for the ceremony of Ash Wednesday should be those of thebranches carried in the procession of the preceding year, and which werecarefully preserved from year to year, and burnt when thoroughly desiccated. In 1262 Pope Urban IV. confirmed and… … Fig. 195.—Procession of the Host, in Paris : The procession proceeds from the Maison aux Piliers,the ancient Hotel de Ville, to the Place de Greve. To the left may be seen Jean Juvenal desTJrsins, on his knees before the host, which is carried on a species of litter by a couple ofmonks of the…
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