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Misericord from the Charterhouse of Florence (Tuscany, Italy), depicting a mascaron With the seat lifted (as at left), the misericord provides a ledge to support the user. A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the biblical object) is a small wooden structure formed on the underside of a folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a shelf to ...
Janet Geddes from A History of Protestantism. Janet "Jenny" Geddes (c. 1600 – c. 1660) was a Scottish market-trader in Edinburgh who is alleged to have thrown a stool at the head of the minister in St Giles' Cathedral in objection to the first public use of the Church of Scotland's revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1637 Scottish Prayer Book.
"He Goes to Church on Sunday" is a popular song published in 1907 with lyrics by Vincent Bryan and music by E. Ray Goetz. [1] It was first introduced by Eddie Foy in the Broadway production of the musical comedy The Orchid. [2] The song tells the stories of men who defraud people, but are considered honest because they go to church on Sundays.
Evensong was initially sung entirely to plainsong.Musicians gradually created polyphonic settings of its music, especially of the Magnificat. [6]The first musical setting of the Book of Common Prayer, by John Marbeck, provided a simplified version of traditional chant settings. [7]
The holding of church services pertains to the observance of the Lord's Day in Christianity. [2] The Bible has a precedent for a pattern of morning and evening worship that has given rise to Sunday morning and Sunday evening services of worship held in the churches of many Christian denominations today, a "structure to help families sanctify the Lord's Day."
' under your protection ') is an ancient Christian hymn and prayer dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The hymn enumerates her special election by God the Father and her motherhood of God the Son. It is one of the oldest known Marian prayers and among the most ancient preserved hymns still currently in use.
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Rolling Stone listed "Like a Prayer" among "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The accompanying music video for "Like a Prayer", directed by Mary Lambert, shows Madonna witnessing a white woman being sexually assaulted and subsequently killed by a group of white men. While a black man is arrested for the crime, Madonna hides in a church for ...