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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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Pope Urban the fourth ordained the feast of the Sacrament of the Altar,1 otherwise called, The feast of Corpus Christi, with pardons and indulgences great plenty, to allure the foolish and simple people to commit spiritual whoredom with that Sacrament by adoring and worshipping it as their God, Maker and Saviour: and willed it to be kept holy the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. In the year, &c. 1254. Christianus. Massaeus. Joan. Stella. Polyd. Pantal.
Pope Vrban the fourth ordained the feast of the Sacramente of the Altare,1 otherwyse called, The feaste of Corpus Christi, with pardons and indulgences greate plentye, to allure the foolyshe and simple people to commit spiritual whoredome with that Sacrament by adoryng and worshipping it as theyre God, Maker and Sauioure: and willed it to bee kepte holy the Thursdaye after Trinitie Sonday. In the yeare, &c. 1254. Christianus. Massaeus. Ioan. Stella. Polyd. Pantal.
- 1The feast of Corpus Christi.
The beginning of this feast was this In the country of the Leodicenses there was a certain Recluse or Anckresse called Eva, which of a vain, foolish, and superstitious devotion and love toward the Sacrament of the altar,1 as they term it, procured through earnest suit of Pope Urban the fourth, that the Sacrament of the Altar, commonly called Corpus Christi, might also have a feast and holy day, being as well worthy as the Gallow tree or cross that Christ was hanged on, which was already celebrated in the ⟨image 203⟩Church: and that the same feast of Corpus Christi myghte with all solemnity be kept holy throughout the whole world. Pope Urban being an holy and devout Father, doubt ye not, considering the great devotion, earnest zeal and Godly mind of this holy and religious woman, accomplished fole graciously her tender request, and did not only ordain that this feast of Corpus Christi shuld be kept holy, but he also granted plenary Indulgence, and large pardon to so many as either do say or hear the service belonging to that feast which Thomas Aquinas the Black fryer made, Arnoldus Bostius. Guili. Durand. Chron.