rus, landed at Adrianople, and stormed the great mosque in which the sultan, with his court, was at the time at- tending the noon-service. Misri was defeated in his at- tempt, and he was arrested with his ringleaders and car- ried back to Broussa. No other punishment was in- flicted, because Jlisri had gained popular favor by his
70. We have room here only for its essentials, and in presenting these depend chiefly upon Neale, who says that, technically speaking, the office of the presanctified is merely an addition to the usual vespers.
In the prothesis of the Sunday preceding, when res- ervation is to be made, the priest, having as usual cut
religious enthusiasm. The occurrence of a large fire and stabbed the first loaf, cuts also the other loaves, say- and a violent earthquake two days after Misri's re- ing for each, " In remembrance," etc., as in the usual of- moval disturbed tlie popular mind, and it was generally fice. Then he pours forth wine and water in tlie holy held that ISIisri had been truthful in his declarations, chalice. When he is about to sign the loaves, he speaks and he was hereafter regarded as endowed with super- ' in the singidar. "^Make this bread," because Christ is natural visions. The sultan even refpiested ^Misri to re- i one. He elevates all the loaves together, aiul breaks turn ; but he refused, iledaring his mission finished, as ' the first loaf of the oblations, and puts the portion in he had accomplished the task of rousing the authorities I the holy cup, and pours in the warm water ;is usuaL to more vigorous action towards the Austrians. Here- ; Then taking the holy spoon in his right haiul, he dips after :Misri gave himself up to religious studies, and ! it in the holy blood ; and in the left hand he takes each wrote poetry on sacred subjects. The most important i loaf by turns, and holding the holy sjioon that has been of his productions celebrates the incarnation of Christ, dipped in the holy blood, he moves it crosswise on the wherein it is said," I am always with .Jesius, and united part where the cross has been made on the crumb, and with him." These verses, because Misri's production, ' puts it away in the arto])horion. So with the other received the certificate of orthodoxy, but it was ordered , loaves of reservation. In the rite itself, after the pmy- also tliat they be prefaced by these warning words: | ers and responses of the three antiphons. while the tro- " Whosoever writes verses like these of Jlisri shall be; paria are sung, the priest goes to tlie lioly prothesis, committed to the flames; Misri alone shall be spared, and taking the iiresanctitied bread from the artopho- for we cannot condemn one who is possessed with en- I rion, puts it with great reverence on the holy disk, thusiasm." There is little left of the poetical composi- [ putting also wine and water, after the accustomed man- tions of Misri, and that little is not printed. The pa- j ner, into the holy chalice, and saying, not the prayer of triarch Callinicos, who was in friendly relations \\'n\\\-\^TOx\\Qsis,h\xlo\\\y,Throii)jhthe2i>oyer$ofourholyFa-
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fher, Lord, God, Jesus Christ, have mercy upon us. For t.ie sacrifice is presanctified and accomplished. After the Cathisma, etc., the little entrance takes place with- out the Gospel; then the prayers of the catechumens, and the prayers of the faithful, in the second of which is, "Behold at the present time his spotless body and quiclvcning blood entering in, and about to.be proposed on this mystic table, invisibly attended by the multi- tude of the heavenly host." Then is sung the hymn, " Now the heavenly powers inyisible minister with us, for behold the King of Glory is borne in. Behold the mystic sacrifice, having been perfected, is attended by angels : with faith and love let us draw near, that we may become partakers of life eternal." After this the great entrance is made, but instead of the prayer of the cherubic hymn, the fifty-first Psalm is said. After the entrance, the deacon says, •' Let us accomplish our evening supplication unto the Lord. For the proposed and presanctified gifts, let," etc. In the following prayer occur the words, " Look down on us who are standing by this holy altar as by thy cherubic throne, on which thine only-begotten Son and our God is resting in the proposed and fearful mysteries." After further prayers, the priest, the divine gifts being covered, stretches out his hand and touches the quickening blood with rever- ence and great fear ; and when the deacon says, " Let ns attend," the priest exclaims, " Holy things presancti- fied for holy persons." Then, having unveiled them, he finishes the participation of the divine gifts. The com- munion being finished, and the holy things that remain being taken away from the holy table, the concluding prayers are made.
In the controversy regarding this rite between cardi- nal Humbert and Nicetas Pectoratus, the only matter of real liturgical interest appears to be Humbert's ob- jection that a double oblation is made of the same thing — first in the liturgy, in which it is consecrated, next in that in which it is received. Neale denies the exist- ence of the second oblation. " The mere fact of the great entrance," he writes, "without any formal obla- tion, and simply considered, does not involve of neces- sity a sacrifice."