consecratione

Updated: May 7, 2025

Cyprian in some places testifies that the blood was given to the people. The same is testified by Jerome, who says: The priests administer the Eucharist, and distribute the blood of Christ to the people. II., De Consecratione, cap. Only custom, not so ancient, has it otherwise. III., cap.

Philipp Melanchthon - The Augsburg Confession : The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530

In a bull of the year 752, Pope Stephen II. decides to adhere to the already existing diocesan divisions, and adjudges to the bishop of Arezzo the churches "quae esse manifestum est sub consecratione et regimine praefatae S. Aretinae Ecclesiae, territorium vero est prefatae nominatae Civitatis Senensis."

William Klapp Williams - The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century: An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development: Of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes.