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Even the glittering halpas, and the gleams of light above it where the five chapels branched behind even these things became shrouded; there was just a sheet of white beneath him, the glow of a chalice, and the pale disc of the sacrificial bread. Then, as he paused, with hands together "famulorum famularumque tuarum" there opened out the world where his spirit was bending its intention.
The tongue of a nation that had been resolved into the elements was fitting in this place, where time and desolation had left their imprint in discolored marble, inscriptions almost effaced, and clambering vines. Animabus famulorum To many the words so mournfully intoned brought solace and surcease from sorrow.
Not for the living only, but for the whole Church men offer that sacrifice pro redemptione animarum suarum, pro spe salutis et incolumitatis suae. Memento etiam Domine famulorum famularumque tuarum qui nos praecesserunt cum signo fidei et dormiunt in somno pacis.... Here in S. Apollinare at any rate for ever they await the renewal of that moment.