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The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments

Editorial note — Chapter VII · OF THE CONSECRATION OF AN ALTAR

J. M. (John Mason) Neale translation

[Footnote 426: S. Mark i, 4.] [Footnote 427: There be four kinds of holy water, one, by the which is made the judgment of expurgation, which is no longer used; a second, which doth sanctify in the consecration of a church or an altar; a third, with which aspersions be made in the church; and a fourth, the water of baptism.'—Durandus, Lib. IV, iv, 10.]

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