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    some eggs, sugar coming later ... it developed from the blessed bread [pain bénit] of the church which gradually became of better quality, more and more...
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    "instead of the Eucharistic gifts". A blessed bread akin to antidoron, pain bénit, is used in some French and Canadian Latin Catholic churches as a substitute...
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    ("bidding prayers", see below), offertory procession, and distribution of the pain bénit at the end of the mass.[…]The laity's mass was less sacrifice and sacrament...
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    work is held by the "Centre national des arts plastiques" in Paris. "Le Pain bénit". An oil on canvas painting held by the Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon. "Après...
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    have possibly also taken the tale from a French fabliau, "L'Evesque qui benit sa maitresse" ("The bishop who blesses his mistress"). Fiammetta tells this...
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