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subdiaconus patenam et calicem sic et reliqui
[16] 'Episcopus presbyter aut diaconus si a gradu suo iniuste deiectus in secunda synodo innocens reperiatur non potest esse quod fuerat nisi gradus amissos recipiat coram altario de manu episcopi; (si episcopus) orarium annulum et baculum; si presbyter orarium et planetam; si diaconus orarium et albam; si subdiaconus patenam et calicem; sic et reliqui gradus ea in reparationem sui
— from Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

sancta populus electus civitas sacerdotalis et regia
Petrus et Paulus) sunt qui te ad hanc gloriam provexerunt ut gens sancta, populus electus, civitas sacerdotalis et regia, per sacram B. Petri sedem caput orbis effecta latius præsideres religione divina quam dominatione terrena.' —
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount


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