Note 42 — Chapter XVIII · LITURGICAL PLAYS
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The Verdun Consuetudines do not. The burial and resurrection of the cross clearly formed no part of the Good Friday and Easter rites. The dialogue takes place ‘in subterraneis specubus,’ i.e. the crypt, and the representatives of the Maries return to the choir ‘cruce vacua nuntiantes: Surrexit Dominus’ (Martene, iv. 299).