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 353
es. The interpreter-linguists, the copyists, and the notaries, whofigure in the Greek as well as in the Roman Church down to the fourth orfifth century, ranked with the order of confessors and that of clerks. In the early days of Christianity the bishop in each diocese consecratedto the service of… … Fig. 219.—The Chanter or Psalmist, MinorOrder.—G. Durands Rati nale. THE SECULAR CLERGY. 275 meritorious he might be; thus Latinus, Bishop of Brescia, who diedtowards the close of the third century, had been, as his epitaph recorded,simple exorcist for twelve years, priest for fifteen, and bishop…
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