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articles …’ With this said, and having given his benediction and having received the sacrament of the church with piety, and having disposed of his temporal possessions wisely, he returned to Christ and was buried with honour in the church of St Paul in London. Into his inheritance, on the part of his wife, Thomas entered. The admonishment of his father-in-law was not forgotten
John Wyclif (d. 1384) was among the leading schoolmen of fourteenth-century Europe. He was an outspoken controversialist and critic of the church, and, in his last days at Oxford, the author of the greatest heresy that England had known. This volume offers translations of a representative selection of his Latin writings on theology, the church and the Christian life. It offers a comprehensive view of the life of this charismatic but irascible medieval theologian, and of the development of the most prominent dissenting mind in pre-Reformation England. This collection will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of medieval history, historical theology and religious heresy, as well as scholars in the field.
where parochial rights were being infringed. When, in 1311, the hermit of Cripplegate (London), Thomas de Byreford, 21 was found to have been hearing confessions, administering the sacraments, preaching, advertising indulgences, parading images of the saints through the streets, receiving offerings and burying the dead, all without licence, the bishop responded in the strongest terms. Translated from
corrupted by heretical depravity; in fact, if it ever happens that other heretics from Lombardy or elsewhere come to Genoa, they are taken and burnt in fires as soon as they are discovered. And because the Genoese were so opportunely united and founded in the faith of Christ, they are today constant and steadfast in the sacraments of the faith, assiduous in ecclesiastical office, and devoted to hearing the word of God
enclosed in her cell; she knelt in it to participate in the sacraments, and when she died she was buried in it. A second, empty grave was also discovered at this time, and was interpreted as belonging to an earlier occupant of the cell. (i) Plan of church
. (xi) 17 June 1407 Grant to Thomas Kendale, hermit, of pontage for two years for the repair of the bridges called ‘Smalebrigges’ and the causey [causeway] between the town of Cambridge and the town of Barton (Cambs). 24 38. Two episcopal indulgences in favour of hermits Though sin could be absolved in this present life through the sacrament of penance, there remained a penalty to be paid in purgatory
zeal, and thus everyone saw that he was truly contrite and had made full confession, and that he had regained the grace of the Holy Spirit which he had formerly lost. 128 Indeed, the holy fathers utterly condemned simoniacs because, strictly speaking, simony is a sin committed against the Holy Spirit—since a simoniac sells or buys ecclesiastical benefices or the sacraments of
sacraments of God with the same care with which they exert themselves in their desire to investigate tragic dirges and the fictions of poets and excite the applause of men over the theatrical performances of comic actors. 111 The criticism of those who devote themselves to pagan literature at the expense of sacred scripture is a well-worn topos , and too much should not be read in to it. At the same time, the reference to stylistically uncouth commentaries and comic plays at least hints at the reading of Terence through a tradition of glosses similar to what is
( professio ) was one through the sacrament of sacred confession may also be one in sharing the joy of their eternal reward. Chapter 24 That he himself [Wala] was carried by angelic hands to the joys of eternal life [p. 97] we know full well from the information of the venerable Queen Ermengard. 253 She often said, in a spirit of pious recollection, 254 that at the death of the great man and in the hour of his demise she had sent word to the various monasteries of Italy that they should each commend the soul of the blessed man to God in their prayers. Amongst which
other worthy men of the same craft in the name of all the persons of the craft, having their devotion to almighty God and to the blessed sacrament, the which is all Christian men’s belief, and considering a devout thing called the new canopy over the altar in the church of St Michael of the said city in the which the blessed sacrament is worthily at this time kept, the which keeping must have cost and