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Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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nd, in 1570, the new Missal. As the principal objectwas to reform the errors which had crept in in later times, the dioceses which possessed rituals of at least two hundred years old could either preserve their own customs or adopt the Breviary and the Missal of Pius Y. The Church has deviated as little as possible from its ancient ceremonial, particularly in what concerns the administration of the sacraments. Nevertheless, seven sacraments, which we will rapidly notice in the order in which they are enumerated by the Council of Trent, were formerly accompanied by certain ceremonies which the change of manners and customs has caused to fall into disuse, and which we shall mention merely as a proof of their antiquity. 1. Baptism, which St. Peterhad given by aspersion to the three thousand persons whom he converted by his first sermon, was also given in primitive times by immersion; finally infusion (from the Latin verbin fund ere, to sprinkle) was adopted in themanner in which it is practised our own days
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Fig 189.—Three Sacraments: Baptism, which inaugurates life ; Confirmation, which strengthens childhood; and Penance, which reconciles manhood. Left portion of the triptych painted on panel by Roger Van der Weyden(Rogier del Pasturle).—From the Antwerp Museum (Fifteenth Century). (Figs.190). 189 and 232 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 2. Confirmation was administered immediately after baptism, when only adults were admitted to the latter sacrament; but when baptism was administered to new-born infants, confirmation had to be postponed till the receivers of the rite were old enough to answer for themselves—that is to say, un-til they were capable

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