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this blog contains personal reflections and NOT endorsements, recommendations, advertisements, advice, criticism, admonitions, or censures. It is part of a personal activity of "thinking-through." All representations are merely provisional and are mine and mine alone. Its subject is 'Anglican patrimony'.
(N. B. Many of the posts are quotations or re-posts, as clearly indicated by the hyperlink.)
Patrimony
We deny to claim "any Superiority to ourself to defyne, decyde, or determyn any Article or Poynt of the Christian Fayth and Relligion, or to chang any Ancient Ceremony of the Church from the Forme before received and observed by the Catholick and Apostolick Church."
In the high Middle Ages, Notre Dame cathedral in Paris had a magnificent altarpiece depicting the Assumption that they used to open only on the feast of the Assumption and for the duration of its octave. So far as I know, it was destroyed during the Revolution (along with the stone choir screen, and many things beside), but imagine it had survived to our own times. Would it suffer the base indignities of Signum Magnum? That's assuming its survival there, and it not now being on display in the Louvre.
In the high Middle Ages, Notre Dame cathedral in Paris had a magnificent altarpiece depicting the Assumption that they used to open only on the feast of the Assumption and for the duration of its octave. So far as I know, it was destroyed during the Revolution (along with the stone choir screen, and many things beside), but imagine it had survived to our own times. Would it suffer the base indignities of Signum Magnum? That's assuming its survival there, and it not now being on display in the Louvre.
ReplyDeleteAlas for the folly of our time!