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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 John the .xviii. confirmed the Feast of all souls, which was begun by a certain Monk called Oclilo, and commanded that it should be kept •oly in every Church the day following the Feast of all Saints. In the year of our Lord. 999. Petrus. Damianus. Christianus. Massaeus. Volat. Fascicu•us. Temporum. Joan. Stella. Polid.
Pope Iohn the .xviii. confirmed the Feast of all soules, whiche was begōn by a certayne Monke called Oclilo, and commaunded that it should be kept •oly in euery Churche the day followyng the Feast of all Saintes. In the yeare of our Lord. 999. Petrus. Damianus. Christianus. Massaeus. Volat. Fascicu•us. Temporum. Ioan. Stella. Polid.
This Feast, as they write, toke the beginning on this manner.1 A certain Monk named Oclilo provincial of the Monks of Clun•acensis order, upon an occasion that he heard about Etna the mountain of Sicily oftentimes great ⟨image 206⟩weeping, lamenting, and crying, which he supposed to be the yelling of evil spirits that wailed because the souls of dead men were taken out of Purgatory from them by the petitions, prayers, suffrages, and sacrifices of well disposed Christen people, persuaded his Convent to make a general Obit for all souls the day next after the feast of all Saints, and desired Pope John the xviii. to set it forth by his authority, and to command it to be observed generally as a godly Institution full of loving, tender, and pitiful charity. Which thing Pope John did with all expedition: so that of this Monks foolish supposition, there hath sprung up much vain superstition. Volat. Polid. Joan. Laziard.
This Feast, as they write, toke the begynnyng on this manner.