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 311
sJohn and Peter, and others dressed in white, with crowns on their headsand wings on their shoulders, played the part of the angels who communedwith them. Pentecost (Fig. 197), or the Easter of Roses, was accompanied withthe same dramatic and religious accessories. In many churches duringmass, at… … Fig. 199.—Knife with which the consecrated bread was cut; on the blade may be read on oneside a prayer for a blessing on the food, on the other a thanksgiving, both with music (Six-teenth Century).—Collection of M. Ach. Jubinal, Paris. imitation of the mystery, tongues of fire fell from the roof,…
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