Note 966 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL

Dieckhoff, Die kirch. Trauung, 35 ff.: sacramentaria of Popes Leo, Gelasius, and Gregory I. These, he thinks, show not merely a "divine benediction of the marriage already concluded, but essentially a divine joining in marriage." These services are also contained in Daniel, Codex liturgicus, I, 257 ff.; and that of Gelasius in Martene, De ritibus, II, 127.