History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . y, first in England, about thetwelfth century, the laity renounced the wine entirely, the priestalone drinking it. In 1415, the Council of Constance decreed thisthe right mode on the ground that, since the bread becomes fleshwhen blessed by the priest, it is sufficient for the laity to receivethe flesh of Christ (bread) only, since in flesh there is also blood(wine). Wine was first restored to the laity of Germany by Lu
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . y, first in England, about thetwelfth century, the laity renounced the wine entirely, the priestalone drinking it. In 1415, the Council of Constance decreed thisthe right mode on the ground that, since the bread becomes fleshwhen blessed by the priest, it is sufficient for the laity to receivethe flesh of Christ (bread) only, since in flesh there is also blood(wine). Wine was first restored to the laity of Germany by Luther,at a communion in the City Church, Wittenberg, 1;__. All Prot-estants follow Luther in this and use it along with the bread. 35 DETERIORATION AND DIVISION OF THE CHURCH Church Worship. Churches, many of which had beenheathen temples, were dedicated with great ceremony, to suchpersonages as the Archangel Michael and to martyrs. They fre-quently contained a chapel of Our Lady. The people wereignorant, and those converted by the sword lacked true Mosheim, There was little difference in these timesbetween the worship of the Christians and that of the INTERIOR OF ST. PETERS, ROME This is tlu third building on the supposed site of the Circus of Nero, and the burialplace of Peter. To secure the $50,000,000 needed for the erection of this, thelargest and finest Christian church on earth, Popes Julius II and Leo X offeredindulgences for sale, which led to the Reformation. The four great piers whichsupport the dome are shrines for the four great relics of the church, viz., the lanceof St. Longinus, the soldier who pierced the Saviours side; the head of St. Andrew;a portion of the true cross: and the napkin of St. Veronica, upon which, havingwiped his face, his features were impressed. In the crypt below, among the urnsand stone coffins of emperors. popes, is a sarcophagus brought hither in 257, andwhich the Roman Catholic Church has always revered as that of St.
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