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 309
was composed by St. Thomas dAquinas. 240 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. The procession termed Litanies majeures, first instituted in 589 by PopePelagius II., owed its origin to a plague that desolated Rome after aninundation of the Tiber. In 474 St. Mamert, Archbishop of Vienne, in Dauphiny, in order… … Fig. 197.—Pentecost.—Fac-simile of a Miniature from the Psalmody of St. Louis.—Manuscriptof the Thirteenth Century, in the National Library, Paris. precede the feast of the Ascension. This procession was ordered for thewhole of France by the Council of Orleans in 511 ; but it only came intouse at…
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