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Forty Hours' Devotion, in Italian called Quarant'ore or Quarantore, is a Roman Catholic liturgical action in which continuous prayer is made for forty hours before the Blessed Sacrament in solemn exposition. [1] It often occurs in a succession of churches, with one finishing prayers at the same time as the next takes it up.
A common early practice of adoration known as Quarantore (literary 'forty hours') started in the 16th century. It is an exercise of devotion in which continuous prayer is made for forty hours before the exposed Blessed Sacrament.
Folio 15v: Christ on the Mount of Olives. The book was for centuries known as the "Vienna Hours of Charles the Bold", [4] [5] and thought to have been intended to mark the death of Charles the Bold, ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands, at the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477, and thus as a book of mourning, intended for either his widow, Margaret of York, or his daughter, Mary.
A priest and altar server kneel to recite the Leonine Prayers. The Leonine Prayers, also known as Prayers after Mass, are a prescribed set of Catholic prayers for recitation by the priest and people after Low Mass required within the Roman Rite of the Latin Church from 1884 to 1965.
The confraternity practised the Forty Hours' Devotion. [ 1 ] Prominent members include three future popes, Giovanni de' Medici ( Leo X ), Giovanni Angelo de' Medici ( Pius IV ) and Michele Ghislieri ( Pius V ); the Cardinal Guillaume Briçonnet and his sons, Bishops Guillaume Briçonnet and Denis Briçonnet ; and the Bishops Giacomo Simonetta ...
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
The practice of perpetual prayer was inaugurated by the archimandrite Alexander (died about 430), the founder of the monastic Acoemetae or "vigil-keepers".. Laus perennis was imported to Western Europe at St. Maurice's Abbey in Agaunum, where it was carried on, day and night, by several choirs, or turmae, who succeeded each other in the recitation of the divine office, so that prayer went on ...
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