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Heortology : $b A history of the Christian festivals from their origin to the present dayKellner, K. A. Heinrich (Karl Adam Heinrich)

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Heortology : $b A history of the Christian festivals from their origin to the present day

Name: Heortology : $b A history of the Christian festivals from their origin to the present day
Author: Kellner, K. A. Heinrich (Karl Adam Heinrich)

Kellner, K. A. Heinrich (Karl Adam Heinrich)

Church year; Fasts and feasts

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The second vol. contains “Traités Historiques et Dogmatiques sur divers
Points de la Discipline de l’Eglise et de la Morale Chrétienne.” Paris,
1683.

TOMASI, GIUS. MARIA (Cardinal, † 1731).—_Opera._ Ed. Vezzosi. Rome, 1748,
etc.

VEITH, P. ILDEFOUS.—On the Latin Martyrologies in the _Hist.-pol.
Blätter_, 1895 and 1896. On the Greek Martyrologies in _Studien und
Mitteilungen aus dem Benediktinerorden_, 1896 and 1897. See the
_Katholik_, 1894, ii. 314 _et seqq._


(_b_) BY NON-CATHOLIC AUTHORS

ACHELIS, HANS.—_Die Martyrologien, ihre Geschichte und ihr Wert._ Berlin,
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ALT, HEINRICH (Preacher of La Charité).—_Das Kirchenjahr._ Berlin, 1860.

AUGUSTI, J. CHR. WILH.—_Denkwürdigkeiten._ Leipzig, 1817, etc. Vols.
i.-iii.: “Die Feste der alten Christen für Religionslehrer und gebildete
Laien aller Konfessionen.” (The author gives one or two sermons from the
Fathers for each feast as an appendix.)

DANIEL, HENR. ADALF.—_Codex liturgicus ecclesiæ universæ._ Four vols.
Lipsiæ, 1847.

DRESSER, MATTH.—_De festis et præcipius anni partibus._ Lipsiæ, 1584.

ERBES.—_Das Syrische Martyrologium und der Weihnachtsfestkreis_ in
Brieger’s “Zeitschr. für Kirchengesch,” 1905, iv., and 1906, i.

HALTAUS, CHR. GOTTLOB.—_Jahrzeitbuch der Deutschen des Mittelalters._
Translated by G. A. Scheffer. Erlangen, 1797.

HOSPINIANUS (WIRTH), RUD.—_De Festis Christianorum._ Genevæ, 1574.
Turici, 1593.

MALTZEW, A. VON.—_Fasten- und Blumen-Triodion_, etc. Berlin, 1899.
The Introduction deals with the ecclesiastical year of the Orthodox,
Armenian, and Roman Catholic Churches.

RANKE, E.—_Das Kirchl. Perikopensystem aus den ältesten Urkunden der
römischen Liturgie dargelegt und erläutert._ Berlin, 1847.

STRAUSS, FRIEDR.—_Das evangelische Kirchenjahr in seinem Zusammenhange
dargestellt._ Berlin, 1850.

USENER, HERM.—_Religionsgeschichte Untersuchungen._ Das Weihnachtsfest.
Bonn, 1889.




TABLE OF CONTENTS


  SECT.                                                               PAGE

                                 PART I

                    THE CHURCH’S FESTIVALS IN GENERAL

     1. INTRODUCTION                                                     1

     2. SUNDAY AND ITS OBSERVANCE AS A DAY OF REST                       6

     3. THE CLASSIFICATION OF FESTIVALS                                 13

     4. THE GRADUAL INCREASE OF FESTIVALS. THEIR DECREASE IN THE
          LAST THREE CENTURIES. THE PRESENT POSITION                    16

                                 PART II

                      CHAPTER I.—THE CHURCH’S YEAR

        _A._ EASTER, AND THE SACRED SEASONS CONNECTED WITH EASTER

     1. EASTER, ITS NAME AND HISTORY                                    37

     2. THE CONNECTION OF THE CHRISTIAN FESTIVAL WITH THE JEWISH        41

     3. THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO EASTER BEING A MOVABLE FEAST     46

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