Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1878) (14578310769)

Identifier: sciliteratur00jaco (find matches)
Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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preached two or three times a day. The sermon wasdelivered from the steps of the altar, except when it was preached in thegraveyard, or from the church porch. Sometimes an animated conversationwould take place between the preacher and his audience, and it would evenhappen that the new converts, whose savage passions could ill brook thesevere injunctions of Christian morality, interrupted the sermon by theirmurmurs, and abruptly left the church. Upon one such occasion St. Hilaryof Poitiers, seeing that his congregation prepared to withdraw in order notto hear his chiding voice, ordered the doors of the church to be shut, andsaid, in indignant tones, You refuse to hear the Divine word now. Butwhen you are in hell, do you suppose, miserable sinners, that 3^ou will beable to leave when you feel so disposed? These words restored silence andorder in the congregation. The religious eloquence, which had such a greathold over rebellious and depraved natures, owed scarcely anything to art, and
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THE PREACHING OF S STEPHEN.Fresco painung, by Fra Angelico, in the chapel ol Nicholas V, at the Vatican; xV centurv.