The Little Office of the Virgin
Officium Parvum Beate Marie Virginis:
'They all attend Mass every day and say many Paternosters (rosaries) in public, ... and whoever is at all able to read carries with him the Office of Our Lady; and they recite it in church with some companion in a low voice, verse by verse, after the manner of churchmen.'
(Report of the Venetian Ambassador upon visiting England in 1496.)"
'They all attend Mass every day and say many Paternosters (rosaries) in public, ... and whoever is at all able to read carries with him the Office of Our Lady; and they recite it in church with some companion in a low voice, verse by verse, after the manner of churchmen.'
(Report of the Venetian Ambassador upon visiting England in 1496.)"
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