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Our Lady as Patroness of the Dying
According to the Liturgists of Eighteenth-Century France
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
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The ancient cry that there is nothing new under the sun seems often justified in the mind of the student pondering on the history of the devotional spirit. Perhaps nowhere, however, is the truth which underlies the apparently hyperbolic character of this dictum less understood than in the minds of those zealous for this or that movement or cause which powerfully appeals to them.
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- Copyright © 1954 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers
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A documented study of this theme, in which will be found reproduced the Latin text of the Missa de Beata Maria Virgine pro defunclis (presented here in an English version), has been attempted by the present writer in his essay, ‘Our Lady as intercessor for the departed; a glance at liturgical life in France under the ancien régime’, published in Theological Studies (September, 1954).
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