. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. tit tfat a5oie2a,mftt. Fig. 184.—Ancient Legend of Christmas, with the words of the old French plaint. The engravings representthe Sibyl prophesying the Birth of Christ; Jesus in the Stable at Bethlehem ; one of the Magi; and John theBaptist announcing that Christ was born.—Fac-simile from a book of hours, printed with illuminations atParis by Anthoine VeYard, towards the close of the Fifteenth Century. 222 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. canonical hours, was not instituted till the twelfth century, b

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. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. tit tfat a5oie2a,mftt. Fig. 184.—Ancient Legend of Christmas, with the words of the old French plaint. The engravings representthe Sibyl prophesying the Birth of Christ; Jesus in the Stable at Bethlehem ; one of the Magi; and John theBaptist announcing that Christ was born.—Fac-simile from a book of hours, printed with illuminations atParis by Anthoine VeYard, towards the close of the Fifteenth Century. 222 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. canonical hours, was not instituted till the twelfth century, but the otherthree appear to date from the earliest institution of Christianity. St. Cyprian,who lived in the third century, says that prayers were said at Tierce inhonour of the descent of the Holy Ghost, at Sexte in memory of the Cruci-fixion, and at None to commemorate the death of Christ. Half a centuryearlier Tertullian wrote that, independently of the mystic traditions conse-crated by prayer, the Church, in establishing the canonical hours, wished toconform to the secular division of the day. Vespers {Vespera)

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