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What’s a Lenten Veil?

An interesting article by the New Liturgical Movement on the history of Lenten Veils. Here is an excerpt from the article which comes from Fr Joseph Braun’s Die Liturgischen Paramente, 2nd ed., 1924. Whereas according to current Roman use Crosses and images are only veiled during Passiontide, in the Middle Ages the common thing was [...]