There is an interesting post over at the New Liturgical Movement's blog concerning the tradition of dispensing with the "Alleluias" during Lent. I had no idea of an actual coffin-like container which the children would actually bury their handwritten "alleluias" inside and open upon the Feast of the Resurrection. Interesting.
Part 1. Burying the Alleluias: Burning Strawmen, Mourning Choir Boys
Part 2. Burial of the Alleluia in an Anglican-Use Roman Catholic Church in Texas
The Pope Elected by a Bird
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In his Ecclesiastical History 6.29.2-4, Eusebius of Caesarea recounts the
following story about the election in A.D. 236 of Pope St Fabian, whose
feast is ...
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