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

 386 BuoniCattolici the saints. Generally, the faithful lacked this kind of musical skill. Those present simply joined in the e ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 387  ferent concerns.^31 After 1260 , at least, both men and women drew up wills, and they did so with al ...

 388 BuoniCattolici £ 3 ; and Nuta, avestita,£ 2. Perhaps strangely for a Gray Penitent, her one corporate donation (£ 50 ) wen ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 389  meet the Lord. The priest reformulated the Latin questions of his ritual in a vernacular form. He in ...

 390 BuoniCattolici God of Truth, receive me.’’^43 The ritual then prescribed that the penitent make a general confession of al ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 391  breast the Blessed Sacrament, concealed in a pyx covered with a clean white veil. He went in process ...

 392 BuoniCattolici the head, hands, feet, and five senses. Nor did it presuppose the presence of seven priests. Filippo of Fer ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 393  cross and the commendation of one’s soul, Christ’s work on Good Friday; and the eyes’ focus on heave ...

 394 BuoniCattolici prayers for the dying. He asked to be dressed in full pontificals. At the end, he kissed the image of Chris ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 395  both sounding in unison the death knell.^79 All knew the meaning of the bells. For a layman, it toll ...

 396 BuoniCattolici pared Christians to meet their Maker.^86 At Milan, the water used to wash the body was occasionally mixed w ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 397  The laity recognized, in fact, their own hierarchy and orders. Fra Salim- bene recorded how Ser Lodo ...

 398 BuoniCattolici this father said, to the intervention of the Servite saint Filippo Benizzi.^102 In an age when a coma might ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 399  dead,’’ Requiem Mass, and the blessing of the body. Then, for the last time, the chapel bell rang th ...

 400 BuoniCattolici ians recruited peasants from the countryside and transported them to town. They filled up the empty space: ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 401  the body of Jesus into the tomb, refusing to allow the men to help.^125 They then ‘‘recommenced the ...

 402 BuoniCattolici lowed it in the private space of the home.^133 In 1255 , San Gimignano still permitted public wailing, but ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 403  were stored in a protective case at the society chapel.^142 The carrying of such doppieriin processi ...

 404 BuoniCattolici Clergy from both the Mother Church and the chapel of the contrada had jealously guarded places in the funer ...

WorldWithoutEnd.Amen. 405  mending them to the saints and angels who would lead them before the judge of all: R. Saints of God, ...