. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. was distinguished by many names; by some it wastermed the Hosanna, in memory of the acclamations with which Jesus wasreceived in Jerusalem; by others the Sunday of Indulgences, on account ofthe indulgences distributed by the Church on that holy day. In old timesverses from the Gospels, inscribed upon a richly ornamented banner sur-rounded with palm-leaves, were carried in this procession, and it was fre-quently also accompanied by the chalice containing the host, in the midstof consecrated branches. It was,
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. was distinguished by many names; by some it wastermed the Hosanna, in memory of the acclamations with which Jesus wasreceived in Jerusalem; by others the Sunday of Indulgences, on account ofthe indulgences distributed by the Church on that holy day. In old timesverses from the Gospels, inscribed upon a richly ornamented banner sur-rounded with palm-leaves, were carried in this procession, and it was fre-quently also accompanied by the chalice containing the host, in the midstof consecrated branches. It was, as a rule, customary that the ashesemployed for the ceremony of Ash Wednesday should be those of thebranches carried in the procession of the preceding year, and which werecarefully preserved from year to year, and burnt when thoroughly desiccated. In 1262 Pope Urban IV. confirmed and extended to the whole ofChristendom the statute of Robert, Bishop of Liege ; who, being of opinionthat the ceremony of the eucharist ought to be celebrated in a more solemn 238 LITURGY AND Fig. 195.—Procession of the Host, in Paris : The procession proceeds from the Maison aux Piliers,the ancient Hotel de Ville, to the Place de Greve. To the left may be seen Jean Juvenal desTJrsins, on his knees before the host, which is carried on a species of litter by a couple ofmonks of the Sainte-Chapelle, and surrounded by the clerks of the brotherhood crowned with wreaths of roses and carrying large lighted tapers To the right, and towards the banks of the Seine, and in front of the floating piles of wood, is the great Croix de Greve. On theother side of the Seine may be seen the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.—From a Miniature inthe Manuscript of the Hours of Juvenal des TJrsins, presented by M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot to the town of Paris, and burnt in 1871 in the conflagration of the Hotel de Ville. LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 239 manner than it was possible to do upon Holy Thursday, the day set asid
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