History of the Roman Breviary (Classic Reprint)

Divine Office, I may be permitted to assert that the first of them to regard these studies from the same standpoint as our own was the venerable and lovable Cardinal Bona. He was General of the Cistercians when he published at Rome, in 1653, the book, long since become a classic, generally known as De Divina Psalmodia. He became aC ardinal in 1669, and died in 1674. He had read wisely, and gave us the results of his reading with candour and unction. The main object he had in view was edification, and it is his zeal for this that led him to amass his erudition, but that erudition is rich, and has the true ring about it. Dom Mabillon is, however, the true master of our studies. It is only to be regretted that he was not able to devote himself more extensively to the study of Roman liturgy. But at all events we owe to him the publication, in his Musaeum Italicum (P aris, 1687), of the principal Ordines Romani. His treatise, De Liturgia Gallicana (P aris, 1685), though only an appendix to his edition of the works of S. Germain, is the work of a master. In it he sets forth all that can be learnt from documents concerning the ancient Gallican liturgy, and he publishes the text of theS acramentaries extant. Then, finally, what he had done for theM ass he has also done for the Gallican Office in his dissertation De cursu Gallicano, which is a model of terseness and brevity.
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