. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 174.—Silver-gilt Cruet, showing its different sides; on one side is depicted the head of Christ, with a nimbus, and on the other that of St. Peter. (First or Second Century.) Museum of the Vatican. were so zealously attached to their psalmody, that none would have willinglymissed saying it at its appointed hour, no matter where he might happento be. Instead of the love songs formerly heard at all hours, and in allplaces, says St. Jerome in a letter to his friend Marcellinus, the labourerat the plough hu
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Fig. 174.—Silver-gilt Cruet, showing its different sides; on one side is depicted the head of Christ, with a nimbus, and on the other that of St. Peter. (First or Second Century.) Museum of the Vatican. were so zealously attached to their psalmody, that none would have willinglymissed saying it at its appointed hour, no matter where he might happento be. Instead of the love songs formerly heard at all hours, and in allplaces, says St. Jerome in a letter to his friend Marcellinus, the labourerat the plough hums an Alleluia, the reaper, bathed in perspiration, repeatshis psalmody as he rests from his toil, and the worker in the vineyard carolsDavids grateful verse as he plies his curved sickle. Long before any churches were open to the public, the apostles broke LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 209. Fig. 175.—The Last Supper, symbolically represented as the first eucharistic sacrifice. Jesus, sur-rounded by his disciples, and with John, his favourite disciplo, leaning on his bosom, is adminis-tering his body and blood under the form of bread and wine, to another disciple kneeling in frontof the table.—From a Miniature of the Eleventh Century in the Burgundian Library, Brussels. bread with the faithful in the guest chamber of private dwellings; theirdisciples followed their example in the subterranean cemeteries, termedCatacombs, where the early Christians used to assemble to celebrate theLords Supper (Fig. 175). This sacrament, the primitive form of which E E 2 10 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. is unknown to us, was not termed a mass (missa) till the middle of thefourth century. It was on a Sunday, says St. Ambrose, who was theoriginator of the Ambrosian rite, that I first held a mass. The nameof mass, about the meaning and origin of which the most learned Christianarchaeologists ar
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