 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1825 - 596 pages
...a thing very hard to be understood. There were many pieces of ridiculous pageantry also used in it, as the laying the host in the sepulchre they made for Christ on Good-Friday ; and that. not only the candles that were to burn at the Easter celebration, but the very... | |
 | John Timbs - Historic buildings - 1872 - 602 pages
...the holy communion, and the many ridiculous pieces of pageantry used in it, Bishop Burnet reckons " the laying the host in the sepulchre they made for Christ on Good Friday." Curious accounts exist of the expenses of making and painting the sepulchre, for watching it, bread... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1879 - 78 pages
...sacrifice. " There were many pieces of ridiculous pageantry also used in it (sacrifice of JESUS CUBIST), as the laying the host in the sepulchre they made...oval shape, in which was kept the incense. The latter ivas taken out with a spoon and thrown on the burning charcoal in the censer. At the baptism of a child... | |
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Friday ; and that not only the candles that were to burn at the Easter celebration, but the very fire that was to kindle them, was particularly consecrated on Easter Eve 