well as consecration on nearly all the days of the year, and that they have reduced the oblation of the mass from a ‘mystery’ and a ‘venerable, tremendous and unbloody sacrifice’ (Palmer vol. 2, p. 84) to an offering of bread and wine.  They have thus deprived their followers of the inestimable fruits of communion enumerated by Christ in the gospel—­yet these forsooth are the men who charge Catholics with a departure from primitive practice.  How many other primitive practices mentioned in this work have been abolished by the church of England!]

[Footnote 100:  This plate, which is of gold or silver-gilt, resembles in form the patera used in the ancient sacrifices, and generally represented together with the prefericulum on sepulchral monuments dedicated to the Manes.]

[Footnote 101:  The wine is sanctified, but is not consecrated, either by the particle of the sacred host, or by the recital of the Pater noster, as has been shewn by Mabillon, (Museum Ital.) Bossuet, and other authors quoted by Benedict XIV.  The wine and water represent the blood and water, which flowed on this day from Christ’s body.  See Act.  Coer. p. 54.  Whenever priests say Mass, they receive under both kinds, in compliance with the command of Christ “Drink ye all of this” which words as well as those others, “Do this in commemoration of me” were addressed to the apostles and their successors.]

[Footnote 102:  According to the direction of the Gelasian sacramentary, the Pax Domini etc. is not said on this day.]

[Footnote 103:  “As the communion,” says Mabillon “is of the nature of a sacred banquet, it consists of food and drink; hence the other part of the banquet, viz. drink, was supplied by wine, mixed with water, but sanctified by a particle of the B. Sacrament” See for the service of this day a MS. Pontifical of the church of Apamea in Syria ap.  Martene t. 3, p. 132.  It is found with little variation also in the Gelasian Sacramentary, in a very ancient Ordo Romanus, and some MSS. cited by Martene.  In the Roman church, as Amalarius was informed by the Roman archdeacon “at the station no one communicated”.  In many other churches there was general communion; this is prescribed by the church during this holy season.]

[Footnote 104:  In many churches the crucifix used to be solemnly placed in the sepulchre after the Vespers.  See the Sarum and other missals, ap.  Martene t. 3, p. 139.]

[Footnote 105:  So jealously are these relics kept, that even sovereigns cannot go up where they are preserved, without being first appointed Canons of the Basilica.  The Emperor Frederic III, and afterwards Ladislaus son of the king of Poland, and Cosimo III grand-duke of Tuscany went up dressed as Canons of St. Peter’s.]

[Footnote 106:  The learned professor Sholz after his return from Palestine defended in a dissertation the genuineness of this tomb against Dr. Clark’s objections:  if it be within the walls of the modern city of Jerusalem, it was certainly outside the ancient walls.]