Penitential Associations: The Origins of Civic Democracy | Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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Sacred Liturgical Devotions
The so called books of ours, which i'm sure you've all seen pictures of from communal italy, are extremely rare. The only copy i have ever found, and i found it just recently, is in the fisher library at the university of toronto. It is fourteenth century, and belonged to a very rich female italian penitent, sa yanonymous. They used little pamphlets full of prayers, collects, litanies and so forth, not a cut down version of the divine office. Those who could not sound out the latin text said potheirs. Instead, italians much preferred the recitation of pothers to reading a little office from a
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