Note 88 — Chapter VI · PILGRIMS TO SANTIAGO
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See article in Smith’s Classical Dict.; also Walter Lowrie’s Christian Art and Archæology, 1901. Lowrie thinks that the use of incense originated in funeral processions. “Constantine,” he says, “presented to St. Peter’s a censer (thumiamaterium) of purest gold, adorned on all sides with gems, to the number of sixty, and weighing fifteen pounds.”