American churches ... A series of authoritative articles on designing, planning, heating, ventilating, lighting and general equipment of churches as demonstrated by the best practice in the United States (1915)
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Baker, James McFarlan · New York, The American architect · leaf 66
AMERICAN CHURCHES though there may have been altars that as late as the middle of the eleventh were literally of gold, as Herodotus says century. From a capitulary of Charle- the great altars of Babylon were. magne forbidding the celebrating of Mass Mass was allowed to be said on gold, except on… … REREDOS, ST. PAUL’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Bishop of Tyre, even celebrated mass on use in his day. There are but few traces the hands of his Deacon. Theodore, of them later than the ninth century. These wooden tables were covered with Bishop of Canterbury, says that Mass may be said…
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