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

 346 BuoniCattolici the importance of proper pronunciation, along with correct use of gestures.^18 The need to combine gestures ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 347  the altar was visible. Laypeople acknowledged Christ’s image as they passed. Bona of Pisa, ‘‘after ...

 348 BuoniCattolici never castigated the ordinary lay faithful for failing to kneel or for using fraudulent postures. The sick ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 349  doxy. They made public and manifest that he was a good and Catholic man. Visitors often found him k ...

 350 BuoniCattolici who is in our house.’’ The moral: ‘‘And so, dearest brethren, let us bow, bending the knee and uncovering o ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 351  addressed to the Father in heaven who had adopted us. So the perfect prayer was the Our Father; it ...

 352 BuoniCattolici and pardon us all the sins we do that we displease you not by any deed; And show us how to pardon grant, an ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 353  thirteenth-century example, perhaps from a Franciscan environment, went: Hail Mary, full of grace, ...

 354 BuoniCattolici The Poor Catholics, a lay penitent group converted from heresy, prescribed fifteen Paters for each of the h ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 355  day. The young saint, much to her biographer’s edification, counted it a serious sin for her to omi ...

 356 BuoniCattolici of Forlı`flocked to her funeral and crowded around the bier. They all wanted to touch their own Pater Noste ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 357  meditate on the mysteries they were celebrating. He singled out the feasts of four general Communio ...

 358 BuoniCattolici poraries had other ideas about prayer should be clear. But laypeople did feel the attraction of written pra ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 359  One scholar has suggested that the cost of books of hours restricted their use to the wealthy.^100 ...

 360 BuoniCattolici Victor.^104 The text gives short allegorizations of clerical vestments, a sum- mary of the seven gifts of t ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 361  prayers are often highly devotional, focusing on Christ’s Passion and some- times using litanic for ...

 362 BuoniCattolici Vernacular texts are more promising. By the end of the thirteenth cen- tury, vernacular and partly vernacul ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 363  de Christo,’’ fols. 1 r–v) and a prayer to be recited before the cross (fol. 1 v). The longest item ...

 364 BuoniCattolici nations of conscience. How common was the use of such booklets? The extant manuscripts are often heavily wo ...

GoodCatholics atPrayer 365  this sense of dependence on the Deity. One beautiful three-part Latin prayer may be taken as typica ...