The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . chanting inunison this litany, as they advanced: We beseechthee, O Lord, in the fulness of thy pity that Thineanger and Thy wrath be turned away from this cityand from Thy holy house, because we have sinned:Alleluia! It was an anthem out of one of themany Rogation litanies then beginning to be famil-iar in the churches of Gaul and possibly not un-kno-\vn also at Rome. (Mart^ne, De antiquis Ec-clesiai ritibus, 1764, III, 189; Bede, H. E., II,xx;

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The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . chanting inunison this litany, as they advanced: We beseechthee, O Lord, in the fulness of thy pity that Thineanger and Thy wrath be turned away from this cityand from Thy holy house, because we have sinned:Alleluia! It was an anthem out of one of themany Rogation litanies then beginning to be famil-iar in the churches of Gaul and possibly not un-kno-\vn also at Rome. (Mart^ne, De antiquis Ec-clesiai ritibus, 1764, III, 189; Bede, H. E., II,xx; Joannes Diac, De Vita Gregorii, II, 17 inJligne, P. L., LXXV; Duchesnes ed., Liber Pon-tificalis, II, 12.) The building set apart for theiruse must have been fairly large to afford shelter to acommunity numbering fully forty. It stood in theStable (iate, not far from the ruins of an old heathentemple; and the tradition in Thorns day was thatthe parish church of St. Alphage approximatelymarked the site (Chr. Aug. Abb., 1759). Here Augus- .—?,..i^i„.,;,. 1). I —>«—ipwpwff,^ ?. •-•.???••^•g-y • ~ ,.

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