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2 unusual facts about High Mass


High Mass

Missa Cantata, a sung Tridentine Mass without deacon and subdeacon (usage among United States Catholics)

The renowned liturgist Adrian Fortescue declared that the Missa Cantata "is really a low Mass, since the essence of high Mass is not the music but the deacon and subdeacon".


Pazzi conspiracy

On Sunday, 26 April 1478, during High Mass at the Duomo before a crowd of 10,000, the Medici brothers were assaulted.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark

According to tradition it was here that the first High Mass was celebrated in London, outside the chapels of ambassadors, since the time of King James II of England.

Sacring-Bell

The sacring bell, also known as the sanctus bell, is the bell which rings when the Host is elevated at the celebration of High Mass.


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Glen Provost

In December 2010 Bishop Provost celebrated Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

HD 154672

HD 154672 b is a Hot Jupiter, as it is a closely orbiting planet with a high mass.

Kuiper belt

Modern computer simulations show the Kuiper belt to have been strongly influenced by Jupiter and Neptune, and also suggest that neither Uranus nor Neptune could have formed in their present positions, as too little primordial matter existed at that range to produce objects of such high mass.

Sven-David Sandström

Among his works are The High Mass, a Requiem, concertos for flute, guitar, piano, and cello, and the 2001 opera, Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy on a libretto and originally directed by Claes Fellbom, who commissioned the work for the centennial of the Swedish opera company.

Westerlund 1

The cluster contains a large number of rare, evolved, high-mass stars, including: 6 yellow hypergiants, 4 red supergiants, 24 Wolf-Rayet stars, a luminous blue variable, many OB supergiants, and an unusual supergiant sgBe star which has been proposed to be the remnant of a recent stellar merger.