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[English Translation] that we have mentioned, the others not, idleness & laziness being rigorously forbidden, as the root of all evil. =========================== Of the manner of celebrating the Holy Supper. CHAP. IX. On the days of the Lord's Supper which are all the first Sundays of the months & great feasts, the Bishops & Curates after the preaching, singing of the Psalms & reading of the institution of the Lord's Supper, he descends from the pulpit, taking four Archpriests with him, sits at the table, taking communion first, then consecutively all the Archpriests & the Clergy, then the Elders & overseers of the flocks, who are the civil Centurions & Tenniers, who are presided over this charge because of their probity & good morals. After them, the rest of the common men, then the women. All which persons passing from the right hand to the left of the Bishop, kneeled twenty to twenty before the table of the Lord, for |
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