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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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This feast (as the festival reporteth) is greatly privileged in holy Church,1 in so much that orders be given this day ⟨image 205⟩through out all Christendom, & great pardons be granted to this day in diverse places, as in Zion plenary remission, and all is to the weal and con forte of man, and for a purveyance to sanctify his soul, that in the last resurrection the said soul joined to the body, may together be glorified and transfigured in clearness more brighter than is the Sun, and so ever to endure.
This feast (as the festiual reporteth) is greatly priuileged in holy Churche,1 in so much that orders be geuē this day ⟨image 205⟩thorow out all Christendome, & great pardons be graunted to this day in diuerses places, as in Syon plenare remission, and all is to the weale and cō forte of man, and for a purueaunce to sanctifie his soule, that in the last resurrection the said soule ioyned to the body, may together be glorified and transfigured in clerenesse more brighter thā is the Sunne, and so euer to endure.
- 1The doctrine of the festival.The doctrine of the festiuall.
1Pope Leo the fourth instituted the Feast of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary, and commanded that it should in all places be kept high and holy by the space of right days. In the year▪ &c. 858. Lib. Concil. Sigebert. Joan. Functius.