Church Vestments: Their Origin and Development, by Herbert Norris Icon Stands I: Sundays

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Published: Jul 2019

as well as the hostility towards the Jesuits both on the part of Protestants and also Roman Catholics - a hostility which led one pope to attempt to suppress the Society worldwide towards the end of the eighteenth century

Church Vestments: Their Origin and Development, by Herbert Norris Icon Stands I: SundaysChurch Vestments: Their Origin and Development represents the most comprehensive and meticulously researched study of the development of Christian ecclesiastical garments. A noted authority on the subject, author Herbert Norris begins his study with the earliest days of Christianity in ancient Rome, where church vestments hardly differed from everyday dress. He then traces the invention and development of clerical attire over the centuries until the