Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325

 326 BuoniCattolici consecrated by contract with a piece of the Host.^104 For the laity, Good Friday’s rites culminated when th ...

Resurrection andRenewal 327  with the most precious and sumptuous hangings and adornments. The Lenten veil was not only taken d ...

 328 BuoniCattolici Christ died at that hour and those baptized entered into his death.^118 The urban chapels, even those that ...

Resurrection andRenewal 329  in procession to kiss the candle. No other candle was lighted.^124 At Verona, the fire and candle ...

 330 BuoniCattolici The bishop held the infant turned away from him, and first immersed the child while facing east, then while ...

Resurrection andRenewal 331  Although many, if not most, children were privately baptized on account of the danger of death, th ...

 332 BuoniCattolici then went in procession to purify the canons’ dormitory by sprinkling the rooms with the new Easter water.^ ...

Resurrection andRenewal 333  effects of the Resurrection by a special chanting of the Gospel. Three dea- cons mounted Giovanni ...

 334 BuoniCattolici Tuesday were holidays, not to be profaned by secular work or business, a hiatus in the city that lasted unt ...

Resurrection andRenewal 335  Everyone danced. At Cremona, even staid Bishop Sicardo—with some misgiving—danced in the cloister ...

 336 BuoniCattolici preach at daily Mass ‘‘without any preparation.’’^170 He would get his superi- or’s blessing and recite the ...

Resurrection andRenewal 337  heard preaching on ‘‘Sundays and major feasts,’’ but Jesus did not think that enough.^182 Most chu ...

 338 BuoniCattolici dered godparents incapable of fulfilling their office. Synodal legislation on ignorant godparents multiplie ...

Resurrection andRenewal 339  With their higher literacy rate and more formed religious society, the moth- ers of communal Italy ...

 340 BuoniCattolici Before the Lateran Council, synods and bishops had drawn up outlines for a catechetical program adapted to ...

Resurrection andRenewal 341  if so, was the practice common? One fourteenth-century pamphlet bound into a miscellany that once ...

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Chapter Nine Good Catholics at Prayer  Thirteenth-century Italians worshiped in a world of sacred spaces and sacred rites. Indi ...

 344 BuoniCattolici sermons at the cathedral, he never failed to attend them.^3 Offered in accord with each one’s office and un ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 345  gna drew up their statutes in 1260 , they required that members visit a local church each day, befo ...