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the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Mass Priests
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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mercenaries hired at a certain sum, who undertook an immoderate number of annals or trentals, and were unable to say them, and sold them to be offered by others. This abuse was forbidden in 1236 by archbishop Edmund's Constitutions (2). In 960 the mass priest was the secular, and the minister priest the conventual, and this is the earliest meaning of the term.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Mass Priests'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/m/mass-priests.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Mass Priests'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/m/mass-priests.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
