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Updated: May 8, 2025
Dom Baudot's book gives in concise form the results of the labours of Battifol and Baumer. The book is readable, accurate, and is excellent value for the price. The Calendar. The introductory matter given in the Breviary suffices for the wants of the ordinary student of liturgy.
Bartholomew's Day was not a royal but a popular crime. Catherine de Medicis, believing her existence and that of the king threatened by a plot directed by four or five Protestant leaders then in Paris, sent men to kill them in their houses, according to the summary fashion of the time. The massacre which followed is very well explained by M. Battifol in the following terms:
A very concise and useful work, which I have used often in compiling my book. The articles in the Catholic Encyclopedia, on the Breviary and liturgy generally. Very readable and serviceable to students of early Church history. Battifol, History of the Roman Breviary. Biron-Baumer, Histoire du Breviaire. Cath. Truth Society. Monsignor Battifol's book is well and favourably known.
The word compline comes from the Latin word complere, to complete, to finish, because this Hour completes or finishes the day Hours of the Office. Antiquity. The origin of this Hour has given rise to a great deal of controversy. Both Baumer and Battifol in their histories of the Breviary attribute the origin of this Hour to St. Other scholars attribute its origin to St.
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