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[English Translation] would add something beautiful to a rare and excellent thing, it would be made much more prized. If this is practiced in false Religions, how much more should it be done in the true and Orthodox. Ceremonies are therefore necessary provided that they do not exceed the terms and limits of propriety, and that they do not contradict and derogate from the divine precepts, such as those which this man of God ordered, the first of which was, that in commemoration of our Savior, there would be a large cross in front of the temples on the door of them. That the Bishop would leave his lodgings at four o'clock in the morning, if his studies did not keep him, accompanied by his Clergy in order, three by three in front of him at the third stroke of the bell, of which there are several which are rung, not in the way we do, without order or measure, but in music, resounding Psalms and Canticles, being in a high bell tower, forty paces from the temple. Having entered, he kneels in his chair, and prays to God, then they begin to sing Psalms, at which point one of the Suffragans or Archpriests makes the morning exhortation, then they sing again the pause of a Psalm, which completed they give the M 2 |
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