Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325
246 BuoniCattolici among the faithful can doubt that the heavens open at the voice of the priest, that a chorus of angels is p ...
TheCityWorships 247 silently, so as not to distract from the main service. And he was not to begin until the deacon of the peo ...
248 BuoniCattolici votive Mass was free, the laity had a say in it. When the Franciscan Fra Corrado asked Margherita of Corton ...
TheCityWorships 249 Not all clerics were scrupulous in the discharge of their most sacred duty.^90 Christ appeared in vision t ...
250 BuoniCattolici dualists were willing to go entirely without, but theirs was the most extreme dissenting option available i ...
TheCityWorships 251 took its name. As the priest blessed incense and a procession with censer and candles left to accompany th ...
252 BuoniCattolici As an acolyte went to incense the people, the priest quietly asked the clerics to pray for him. This incens ...
TheCityWorships 253 the priest recited this prayer in a hushed voice, audible only to those, like the deacon, who knelt next t ...
254 BuoniCattolici precious Body and Blood, to the clergy, who kissed it in order of rank and seniority. At the popular Mass o ...
TheCityWorships 255 a twenty-four-pound focaccia made with saffron and cumin (aromata groci et cumini). The swordmakers prefer ...
256 BuoniCattolici Christ to fall on the ground at Communion. Which was greater in the faith, the author asked his brothers an ...
TheCityWorships 257 hymn whose first verse was composed by angels (Luke 2 : 14 ). The devout might bow profoundly at the inton ...
258 BuoniCattolici ‘‘Et cum spiritu tuo’’ at the beginning of Mass, but he wrote nothing to suggest that the people might not ...
TheCityWorships 259 phant hymns like the ‘‘Vexilli Regis’’ of Passiontide.^155 When Bona of Pisa went to Sunday Mass at the co ...
260 BuoniCattolici Mass one day at a nave altar. From nowhere, a woman, Viridiana of Tolen- tino, arrived and interrupted him. ...
TheCityWorships 261 from him hanging on the cross, hail!’’^166 These prayers beautifully capture lay Eucharistic devotion, wit ...
262 BuoniCattolici cial appeal to the laity.^169 They appealed to layfolk perhaps even more than elegant learned devotions lik ...
TheCityWorships 263 riod, during Ascensiontide of 1298 , in the church of Sant’Andrea at Mantua, the Precious Blood began to w ...
264 BuoniCattolici period, laypeople left benefactions to erect altars in honor of the Body of Christ.^182 After the instituti ...
TheCityWorships 265 the created things anyone might find matches in beauty a priest celebrating Mass. Nevertheless, they dare ...
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