Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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was distinguished by many names; by some it wastermed the Hosanna, in memory of the acclamations with which Jesus wasreceived in Jerusalem; by others the Sunday of Indulgences, on account of the indulgences distributed by the Church on that holy day. In old times verses from the Gospels, inscribed upon a richly ornamented banner surrounded with palmleaves, were carried in this procession, and it was frequently also accompanied by the chalice containing the host, in the midst of consecrated branches. It was, as a rule, customary that the ashes employed for the ceremony of Ash Wednesday should be those of the branches carried in the procession of the preceding year, and which were carefully preserved from year to year, and burnt when thoroughly desiccated. In 1262 Pope Urban IV. confirmed and extended to the whole of Christendom the statute of Robert, Bishop of Liege; who, being of opinion that the ceremony of the eucharist ought to be celebrated in a more solemn
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Fig. 195.—Procession of the Host, in Paris : The procession proceeds from the Maison aux Piliers, the ancient Hotel de Ville, to the Place de Greve. To the left may be seen Jean Juvénal des Ursins, on his knees before the host, which is carried on a species of litter by a couple ofmonks of the Sainte-Chapelle, and surrounded by the clerks of the brotherhood crowned with wreaths of roses and carrying large lighted tapers. To the right, and towards the banks of the Seine, and in front of the floating piles of wood, is the great Croix de Greve. On the other side of the Seine may be seen the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.—From a Miniature inthe Manuscript of the Hours of Juvénal des Ursins, presented by M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot to the town of Paris, and burnt in 1871 in the conflagration of the Hotel de Ville.

manner than it was possible to do upon Holy Thursday, the day set aside for the reconciliation of penitents, had decreed that every year, on the

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