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REFERENCES The Easter Sepulchre contained the Blessed Sacrament of the altar, the Host. In a very real way, believing that Jesus is indeed in the Host, the Lord was taken from the tabernacle of the Church on Good Friday evening and placed in a coffin-like box. Candles were lit around the sepulchre, burial clothes adorned it, and parishioners stood guard until early Easter morning at the first mass. The Host was brought out, as Jesus came out of the tomb, and placed in the tabernacle in the center of the Church. Source: "The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580" by Eamon Duffy, Yale University Press, 1992. |
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