SC - Byzantine Bread Stamps

[Huette von Ahrens]

Just as most of the vestments have not changed in the
past 1500 or more years, neither have the Eucharistic
breads.  The idea of using leavened breads for the
sacraments is modern (i.e. from within the 20th
Century.)

Huette

- --- "Alderton, Philippa" <phlip at morganco.net> wrote:
> If you look, it states exactly what they are- stamps
> for Eucharistic bread,
> as part of the Christian ceremony of the Mass (bread
> and wine). I'd be very
> interested in finding out whether the sacred bread
> at that time was leavened
> or unleavened.



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