The Church of our fathers, as seen in st. Osmund's rite for the cathedral of Salisbury, with dissertations on the belief and ritual in England before and after the coming of the Normans, Volume 31852 |
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altar angels Anglo-Saxon anima ankret apud AA argenti atque autem B. V. Mary beads beatæ Mariæ beautiful Beda bestowed bishop Blessed Virgin Blessed Virgin Mary buried called Canterbury capsa aurea cathedral Catholic chamah chantry chapel Christ church corpus cujus Cuthberti dead Deus Domini Durham Durham cathedral Ebor ecclesiæ Edward the Confessor ejus England English erat etiam feretrum God's gold Golden Legend Hail Mary hallowed heaven Hist holy honour igitur inter intercession ipsius king Lady Latria lego Lord martyr Mass meritis Mirac Missa modum mother nobis omnes omni omnibus parish Pater Pater Noster præ pray prayers priest psalter quæ quam quia quidam quod regis relics reliquaries reliquias saints Sancti sanctorum sayntes says semper shrine soul stood sunt super tells Thomæ Thomas tomb unto unum vero virgo Vita wrought Wynkyn de Worde
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Page 322 - Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum: benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Page 315 - Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Page 309 - Maria mater gratiae, mater misericordiae, tu nos ab hoste protege, et hora mortis suscipe, et praecepit capellanis suis quod illa verba in auribus dicere non cessarent.
Page 443 - ... to have with them both men and women, that can well sing wanton songs, and some other pilgrims will have with them bagpipes, so that every town that they come through, what with the noise of their singing. and with the sound of their piping, and with the jangling of their Canterbury bells, and with the barking out of dogs after them, they make more noise than if the king came there away with all his clarions, and many other minstrels.
Page 204 - God commanded, upon superstitious uses, now they ought at this time to be much more ready to help the poor and needy, knowing that to relieve the poor is a...
Page 329 - Ful fetise* was hire cloke, as I was ware. Of smale corall aboute hire arm she bare A pair of bedes, gauded all with grene ; And theron heng a broche of gold ful shene, On whiche was first ywriten a crouned A, And after, Amor vintit omnia. Another NONNE also with hire hadde she, That was hire chapelleine, and PREESTES thre.
Page 144 - And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
Page 399 - ... of which shrine (in gold and jewels of an inestimable value) filled two great chests, one of which six or eight strong men could do no more than convey out of the church, all which was taken to the king's use, and the bones of St. Thomas (by commandment of' the Lord Cromwell) were then and there burnt all to ashes. Which was in September, 1538, Henry VIII. 30.
Page 212 - Soon after, the good lady made the sign of the cross on her breast, and, having recommended to God the king and her youngest son Thomas, who was present, gave up her spirit, which I firmly believe was caught by the holy angels, and carried to the glory of heaven, for she had never done anything, by thought or deed, that could endanger her losing it.