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Explanation of Some Difficulties on the Prayers of the Mass, for a New Catholic

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

Bossuet’s answer to a converted Protestant troubled by several prayers of the canon and the ordinary of the Mass: the sacrifice, the oblation, the intercession of the saints and prayer for the dead. Published in 1689. Lachat edition (1864).

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Source: Typed transcription of volume XVII, page 002. The transcription loses the œ ligature; it is restored by a dictionary pass (ambiguous forms such as sœur/sur, mœurs/murs, vœu/vu decided from the Lachat OCR). Page-bottom notes of the Lachat edition are kept as footnotes.