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EDITORS' PREFACE.

THIS series of Handbooks is designed to meet a need, which, the Editors believe, has been widely felt, and which results in great measure from the predominant importance attached to Dogmatic and Moral Theology in the studies preliminary to the Priesthood: That the first place must of necessity be given to these subjects will not be disputed. But there remains a large outlying field..of professional knowledge which is always in danger of being crowded out in the years before ordination, and the practical utility of which may not be fully realised until some experience of the ministry has been gained. It will be the aim of the present series to offer the sort of help which is dictated by such experience, and its developments will be largely guided by the suggestions, past and future, of the Clergy themselves. To provide Textbooks for Dogmatic Treatises is not contemplated-at any rate not at the outset. On the other hand, the pastoral work of the missionary priest will be kept constantly in view, and the series will also deal with those historical and liturgical aspects of Catholic

belief and practice which are every day being brought more into prominence.

That the needs of English-speaking countries are, in these respects, exceptional, must be manifest to all. In point of treatment it seems desirable that the volumes should be popular rather than scholastic, but the Editors hope that by the selection of writers, fully competent in their special subjects, the information given may always be accurate and abreast of modern research.

The kind approval of this scheme by His Grace the. Archbishop of Westminster, in whose Diocese these manuals are: edited, has suggested that the series should be introduced to the public under the general title of THE WESTMINSTER LIBRARY. It is hoped, however, that contributors may also be found among the distinguished Clergy of Ireland and America, and that the Westminster Library will be representative of Catholic scholarship in all Englishspeaking countries.

II. THE WITNESS OF THE MONUMENTS TO THE PRIMACY

OF THE HOLY SEE

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III. THE WITNESS OF THE MONUMENTS WITH REGARD TO

HOLY BAPTISM

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IV. THE WITNESS OF THE MONUMENTS TO THE DOCTRINE

OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST

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V. THE WITNESS OF THE MONUMENTS AS TO Other Rites

AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH

VI. THE WITNESS OF THE MONUMENTS TO THE COMMUNION

OF SAINTS

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FROM A SARCOPHAGUS, PERHAPS REPRESENTING THE STATUE
OF OUR LORD AT BANEAS. (From Marucchi's "I Monu-
menti del Museo Cristiano Pio-Lateranense". Milan :
Ulrico Hoepli)

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LABARUM OF CONSTANTINE. (From Bayliss' "Rex Regum,"
S.P.C.K.).

COIN OF BRUTUS. (From Bayliss' "Rex Regum,” S.P.C.K.)
INSCRIPTION AT AQUILEIA, SHOWING THE BAPTISM OF A
YOUNG GIRL. (From Marucchi's “Eléments d'Archéolo
gie": Desclée, De Brouwer et Cie)

CHAIR OF ST. PETER

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ST. PETER AS THE GOOD SHEPHERD. From examples in the
Lateran Museum. (From Marucchi's "I Monumenti del
Museo Cristiano Pio-Lateranense". Milan: Ulrico Hoepli)
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GRAFFITO OF THE CRUCIFIXION. (From Marucchi's “Eléments
d'Archéologie": Desclée, De Brouwer et Cie).

NOE IN THE ARK AND THE THREE CHILDREN IN THE FURNACE.
From a sarcophagus in the Lateran Museum. (From
Marucchi's "I Monumenti del Museo Cristiano Pio-Lateran-
ense". Milan: Ulrico Hoepli) .

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VIRGIN AND CHILD. FROM THE CATACOMB OF ST. PRISCILLA. (From Marucchi's “ Eléments d'Archéologie”: Desclée, De Brouwer et Cie)

EPITAPH OF ST. FABIAN. From Marucchi's "Christian Epigraphy": Cambridge University Press

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