What did Charlemagne's Sunday law of 800 require?
Answer
"We decree . . . that servile works should not be done on the Lord's day, . . . that is, that neither should men
do field work, either in cultivating the vineyards or by ploughing in the fields, by cutting or drying hay, or
by placing a fence, or by making clearings in the woods or felling trees or working on stones or
constructing houses or working in the garden; neither should they come together to decide public matters
nor be engaged in the hunt. . . . Women may not do any textile work nor cut out clothes nor sew nor make
garments. . . . But let them come together from all sides to church to the solemnities of the mass, and let
them praise God for all things which He does for us on that day. "-"Historical Chronicles of Germany,"
Sec. 2, Vol. 1, 22 General Admonition, 789, M. Martio 23, page 61, par. 81.
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After she became queen of Persia, how did Esther show her integrity to God?
What did Jesus say of the sacramental wine?
Why does the Lord call the Sabbath His day?
22. How did He manifest His sympathy in the case of Mary and her friends weeping over the death of Lazarus?
How may the- lack of wisdom be supplied?
What did Paul say regarding our duty to the poor?
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