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2 unusual facts about Canon of the Mass


Canon of the Mass

These interpretations inevitably disagreed among themselves and contradicted each other, dividing the Canon where they liked – as far as possible by a holy number, such as 3, 7 or 12 – and then linked each of these divisions to some epoch of our Lord's life, or to one of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost, or – if the divisions made are 8 – to one of the Beatitudes.

On the basis of the uncertain attribution to him of a treatise found among the writings of Saint Cyprian, it is sometimes said that Pope Victor I (190–202) may have been the first Pope to write in Latin.



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