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Often appears with: sacrifice and ritual · religious festival participation · relics · public performances · prayer and worship · money, coin, and credit · marriage and betrothal · london absence of husband · indulgences · festivals, games, and spectacle · dress, ornament, and fashion · courtship planning
Usually: argument (1) · narrative (1) · temptation (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1) · indignation (1) · wonder (1)
“The invocation of saints is also one of the abuses of Antichrist conflicting with the chief article, and destroys the knowledge of Christ.” Martin Luther, The Smalcald Articles · insight
He continues listing Mass-related abuses—pilgrimages, fraternities that sell masses, relics used for indulgence, and monetary indulgences—insisting all conflict with redemption through Christ alone.
live accordingly; and the Pope confirmed these things, as also the Mass and all other abominations. Here, too, there is no [cannot and must not be any] yielding or surrendering. Thirdly. [Hence arose] the pilgrimages. Here, too, masses, the remission of sins and the grace of God were sought, for the Mass controlled everything. Now it is indeed certain that such pilgrimages, without the Word of God, have not been com…
While her husband was in London for Lent, she attended vigilies, processions, sermons, miracle plays, and pilgrimages in festive scarlet dress, planning encounters and later claiming her “fourth husband” died on the bier.
*appointed Therefore made I my visitations To vigilies,* and to processions, *festival-eves<22> To preachings eke, and to these pilgrimages, To plays of miracles, and marriages, And weared upon me gay scarlet gites.* *gowns These wormes, nor these mothes, nor these mites On my apparel frett* them never a deal** *fed **whit And know’st thou why? for th…