Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory

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  • Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory Book Detail

  • Author : A. Edward Siecienski
  • Release Date : 2022-09-30
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Religion
  • Pages : 401
  • ISBN 13 : 0190065060
  • File Size : 42,42 MB
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Beards, Azymes, and Purgatory by A. Edward Siecienski PDF Summary

Book Description: "In 1576, as the Protestant Reformation continued to sweep across Western Europe and Catholic prelates tried to stem the tide through diligent application of Trent's reforming agenda, the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, Charles Borromeo (1538-84) penned a letter to his clergy. In order to restore the Church to its former glory, he enjoined his "beloved brethren" to "bring back good observances and holy customs which have grown cold and been abandoned over the course of time." Chief among them, he wrote, was the custom, which although ancient, had been "practically lost nearly everywhere in Italy . . . I mean the practice that ecclesiastical persons not grow, but rather shave the beard, . . .a custom of our Fathers, almost perpetually retained in the Church" that was "replete with mystical meanings.""--

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