medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
P.S. I forget when the Greeks abandoned the
thumb-forefinger together with the other three fingers
in the palm in favor of the current practice. The Old
Believers in Russia, of course, refused to adopt the
Grecification of Nikon and still Cross themselves in
the old pre-Nikon style.
SM
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> > The question is, what do we know about exactly
> _how_ someone in, for instance, England of the 1480s
> would have gone about the sequence of gestures we
> call "making the sign of the cross" -- and how do we
> know it? And under what circumstances would they do
> it?
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> There is an interesting sermon of Abbot Aelfric of
> Abingdon which he gave
> around the year 1000 in which he states, "Though a
> man wave wonderfully with
> his hand, yet it is not the sign of the Cross: With
> three fingers thou shalt
> sign thyself." (Sermon for Sept. 14)
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> At the period for which we have certain
> information [circa 10th century] the manner of
> making it in the West was
> identical with that followed at present by Eastern
> Orthodox, i.e. only three fingers
> were used, and the hand travelled from the right
> shoulder to the left.
>
> http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13785a.htm
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> Pope Innocent III (1198 - 1216) has a commentary on
> the sign of the cross
> making clear that the three fingers were used and
> that it was, in his day,
> right to left still.
>
> Fr Ambrose
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