[Footnote 331: Perhaps this custom was introduced by the Crusaders. 'As the ostrich is good for food, so, it seems, are its eggs: to say nothing of their being objects of attention, as being used much in the East by way of ornament; for they are hung up in their places of public worship, along with many lamps.' Harmer's 'Observations,' vol. iv, p. 336, who refers to Pococke's 'Travels,' vol. i, p. 31, and imagines that Dr. Chandler, in his travels in Asia Minor, was mistaken when he supposed that the Turkish Mosque of Magnesia was ornamented with lamps pendent from the ceiling intermixed with balls of polished ivory, p. 267. Ostrich eggs might easily be mistaken for ivory balls. The following passage from De Moleon is curious: 'At the conclusion of matins,' he says, speaking of the rites of S. Maurice at Angers on Easter Day, 'two chaplains take their place behind the altar curtains. Two corbeliers (_Cubiculares_) in dalmatics, amices, and _mitellae_, with gloves on their hands, present themselves before the altar. The chaplains chant. _Quem quaeritis_? The corbeliers representing the Maries, reply, Jesum _Nazarenum Crucifixum._ The others answer, _Resurrexit, non est hic_. The corbeliers take from the altar _two_ ostrich eggs wrapped in silk, and go forth, chanting, _Alleluia resurrexit_ Dominus, _resurrexit Leo Fortis_, Christus, _Filius_ Dei.'--_Voyag. Lit._ p. 98. ] [Footnote 332: S. Luke xxii, 61.] {68} 44. Now in the Primitive Church, the sacrifice was offered in vessels of wood, and common vests: for then were 'chalices of wood, and priests of gold': whereof the contrary is now. But Severinus, Pope, decreed that it should be offered in glass: [Footnote 333] but because such vessels were easily broken, therefore, Urban, Pope, and the Council [Footnote 334] of Rheims decreed that gold or silver vessels should be used: or on account of poverty, tin, which rusteth not: but not in wood nor in brass. Therefore it might not be in glass on account of the danger of effusion: nor of wood since being porous and spongy, it absorbeth the blood: nor of brass nor of bronze, the rust of which is unseemly. [Footnote 333: See Martene, Tom. IV, ii, 9; the _Ducretum_, fol. 395.] [Footnote 334: 'A.D. 874, Vid. Concil. Coll. Reg. Tom. I. p. 288.' See also P. Tunoc. iv, Ep. ad Otton. Carel. xiii _Hardouin_ vii, 365.]