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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 Sergius the first of that name invented the Agnus dei, and commaunded that it should be song of the clergy and of the people together at the ⟨p. 134⟩communion or mass. In the year. &c. 684. Plot. Durandus. D. Barns.
1Pope Sergius the first of that name inuented the Agnus dei, and commaunded that it shoulde be songe of the clergye and of the people together at the ⟨p. 134⟩communion or masse. In the yeare. &c. 684. Plat. Durandus. D. Barns.
- 1Agnus dei.
He ordained also, that while the quiere sing the Agnus, 1the priest should break the missal bread in three parts: one for the souls of the Saints, that are in Heaven: an other for them that are in purgatory, the third for them that are in this world living in sin. Again, that the priest should hold still in his hands two pieces of that broken bread over the chalice, and let the third part thereof fall down into the chalice, saying these words: Hec commixtio corporis & sanguinis. &c.
He ordayned also, that while the quiere sing the Agnus, 1the priest should breake the missal bread in three parts: one for the soules of the Sainctes, that are in Heauen: an other for them that are in purgatorye, the thirde for them that are in this world liuyng in sinne. Agayne, that the priest shoulde holde stil in his hands two peces of that broken bread ouer the chalice, and let the thyrde parte thereof fall downe into the chalice, saying these wordes: Hec commixtio corporis & sanguinis. &c.