The festyuall
About this Item
- Title
- The festyuall
- Author
- Mirk, John, fl. 1403?
- Publication
- [London :: [Wynkyn de Worde,
- 1508]]
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- Subject terms
- Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
- Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
- Saints -- Legends -- Early works to 1800.
- Cite this Item
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"The festyuall." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07584.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.
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¶Ther was an holy bysshop yt torned Lowys the kyng of Fraunce to crysten fayth. An so whan ye kyng came to ye cry¦stenynge / atte the halowynge of the fonte there was grete presse of people / that the clerke that bare ye bysshop crysma∣tory myght not brynge it to the bysshop: And soo whan the fonte was halowed and came to the anoyntynge he myght not come to his crysmatory Thenne the bysshop lyft vp his eyen to god prayenge god deuoutly for helpe. And anone therwith ther came a doue as whyte as ony mylke that was the holy ghost berynge in herbylle a vyole with oyle & creme to the bysshop. And whan he opened the vyole there come out therof so swete a sauour that all the people had wondre therof & were gretly comforted therby / & that contynued tyll the seruyce was done Loo here ye may well see though the preest saye the wordes. the holy ghost worcheth the sacra¦ment & doth vertue of the wordis Now that the holy ghost may descende and lyghten vs that we may come to recey∣ue hym to our saluacyon Amen