On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Stephen A. Allen wrote:
> At 03:04 PM 11/5/96 GMT, Bill East wrote:
> >>
> >> It became permissable [sp] to deposit a portion of the host in place of a
> relic,
> >
> >Are you sure of this? What is the evidence? I would have thought it
> highly sacriligious.
> >Oriens.
> >
>
> G.R. Jones has already given the reference to the Concil of Celchyth, and it
> may be supplemented with liturgical evidence dating back to approximately
> the same time (late 8th/early 9th cent.). In the Roman church dedication
> "ordo" edited as "Ordo Romanus XLII" by Michel Andrieu, the celebrant is
> instructed:
>
> Deinde ponit tres portiones corporis domini intus in confessione et tres de
> incenso et recluduntur reliquiae intus in confessione.
>
Just wd like to add a word or two here. C.J.C. Snoek in hs Medieval Piety
from Relics to the Eucharist: A Process of Mutual Intereaction (Leiden,
1995), passim makes note that relics and the eucharist were frequently
interchangeable (there are oaths taken on the eucharist recorded as early
as the 3rd century!). As far as church dedications go, the use of the
eucharist can be traced as early as c. 750 (Roman ordo XLII) and as late
as the 15th century-- the canonist Panormitanus. Attested uses of the
eucharist in church dedications-- the Cathedral of Barcelona (1432) and
San Juan de las Anbadesas (1426).
Hope this helps.
MFH
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