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[181] i e, Even when the mass is decently said

[182] See above, p 72, note 1

[183] See above, p 104

[184] _Das geistliche Unrecht_

[185] The _Treatise concerning the Ban_, above, pp 33 ff

[186] i e, To those who teach and enforce the canon law

[187] Luther ious holidays See also the _Discourse on Good Works_, Vol I, pp 240 f

[188] Or ”congregation”

[189] i e, City-council

[190] _Kirchweihen_, i e, the anniversary celebration of the consecration of a church These days had beco but a spiritual fashi+on

[191] i e, Occasions for drunkenness, gain and ga

[192] See above, pp 96 f

[193] See above, p 98, note 2

[194] Letters entitling their holder to the benefits of the masses founded by the sodalities or confraternities See Benrath, p 103

[195] See above, p 98, and Vol I, p 22

[196] The pun is untranslatable,--_Netz, Gesetz solt ich sagen_

[197] What the pope sold was release from the ”snares” and ”nets,”

viz, dispensation

[198] i e, Even into the law of the church

[199] _Die wilden Kapellen und Feldkirchen_, i e, churches which are built in the country, where there are no congregations

[200] A little town in East Prussia, where was displayed a sacramental wafer, said to have been miraculously preserved froed that at certain times this wafer exuded drops of blood, reverenced as the blood of Christ, and many miracles were said to have been perforriation of John Hus, forbade the Boheo there Despite the protests of the Universities of Leipzig and Erfurt, Pope Eugenius IV in 1446 granted special indulgences for this pilgrie, and the popularity of the shrine was undiminished until the time of the Reformation Cf _Realencyk_, xxi, pp 347 ff

[201] In Mecklenburg, where another relic of ”the Holy Blood” was displayed after 1491 C Benrath, pp 104 f

[202] The ”Holy Coat of Trier” was believed by the credulous to be the seamless coat of Christ, which the soldiers did not rend It was first exhibited in 1512, but was said to have been presented to the cathedral church of Trier by the Empress Helena, e to the Griin, declared to have been ed to onderful cures, especially of syphilis

[204] The ”Fair Virgin (_die schone Maria_) of Regensburg” was an iin similar to that exhibited in the Grimmenthal The shrine was opened March 25, 1519, and within a rims are said to have worshi+pped there (_Weimar Ed_, VI, 447, note 1)

For another explanation see Benrath, p 105