单词 | privileged altar |
释义 | > as lemmasprivileged altar privileged altar n. Roman Catholic Church (a) now historical an altar at which special indulgences could formerly be obtained by the saying of masses (see quot. 1885); (b) an altar at which votive Masses may be said even on days when in other churches this would be forbidden. ΚΠ 1616 P. Hay Vision Balaams Asse iv. 52 Which houses bee no way endued with rents nor prouided, but only referred to voluntary charitie: for helpe whereof, the Pope doth grant them some priuiledged Altars, with extraordinary Indulgences. 1705 W. Bromley Remarks Grand Tour France & Italy (ed. 2) 141 Here it may not be improper to give some Account what a Priviledged Altar is. When the Pope grants a Privilege to an Altar, he declares, that a Mass said there, for any Soul in Purgatory, even the most obnoxious, shall in the same moment deliver it thence. 1800 A. Geddes Modest Apol. Rom. Catholics ii. 184 I am not ignorant, that the practice of praying for the dead is liable to abuses..and that a number of scholastic and monkish innovations have tended to make the Doctrine digusting: such as..Privileged Altars. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) Privileged altar, (1) An altar..by visiting which certain indulgences may be gained. (2) An altar at which Votive Masses may be said even on certain feasts which are doubles... (3) Altars with a plenary indulgence for one soul in purgatory attached to all Masses said at them for the dead. 1930 A. C. Flick Decline Medieval Church II. xxvii. 450 Certain privileged altars in Rome were granted exceptional indulgences. 1980 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 22 556 Four other privileged altars..are either neglected or the site of no particularly important cult. 1992 Burlington Mag. July 433/2 It was for this, one of the seven privileged altars in St Peter's, that Caravaggio painted his ill-fated Madonna dei Palafrenieri. < as lemmas |
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