Note 40 — I 1185-1325
Reading edition
One has but to watch a Rogation procession passing through the fields in the Basque country (which until recently preserved customs of immemorial eld and still calls the Feast of Corpus Christi, introduced by Pope Urban IV in 1262, ‘the New Feast—Festa Berria’) to realize the singularly impressive effect of the singing, first the girls’ treble Ave Ave Ave Maria, Ave Ave Ave Maria, then the answering bass of the men far behind, Ave Ave Ave Maria, Ave Ave Ave Maria (with the slow ringing of the church bell for a refrain like the contemplando and tan callando in the Coplas de Manrique).