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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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1Pope Leo the first being Bishop of Rome, or as some write, Pope Hilary bearing rule, Mamertus Claudius Bishop of Vienna invented first of all those ⟨p. 113⟩iii. Rogation days, that are before the feast of Christs ascension, and made the Litanies that are song about the streets & fields on those days, against earthquakes, and tempest of weather, & peril of wild beasts, &c. And it is called the Less Litany for the difference of the more & greater Litany, which S. Gregory ordained to be said or song on S. Marks day, whereof we have tofore spoken. In the year, &c. 444. Plot. Christ. Massae. Pol. Pant.
1Pope Leo the first beyng Byshop of Rome, or as some write, Pope Hylarye bearynge rule, Mamertus Claudius Byshop of Vienna inuented first of al those ⟨p. 113⟩iii. Rogation dayes, that are before the feast of Christes ascention, and made ye Letanies yt are song about the stretes & fieldes on those dayes, againste earthquakes, and tempest of weather, & peril of wilde beastes, &c. And it is called the Lesse Letanye for the difference of the more & greater Letanye, which S. Gregory ordayned to be sayd or song on S. Markes daye, whereof we haue tofore spoken. In the yere, &c. 444. Plat. Christ. Massae. Pol. Pant.
- 1The Litany for gang days.The Letany for gang dayes.
Pope Liberius appointed, that there should be continual going on processions for war,1 for famine, for pestilence, for rain, for drought & for such other adversities, as we be always in danger of, that by supplications, prayers and fastings, we may escape them. In the year, &c. 354. Guili. Durand.