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Chapter 16

The Feast

Easter is the principal feast of the ecclesiastical year. Leo, I (Sermo xlvii in Exodum) calls it the greatest feast ( festum festorum ), and says that Christmas is celebrated only in preparation for Easter. It is the centre of the greater part of the ecclesiastical year. The order of Sund...

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