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Gallican meaning
Relating to Gaul or France; Gallic; French. | Relating to the French Roman Catholic church, especially before the late 19th century. | Relating to Gallicanism.
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Baronius Press 's revised edition of the Liturgical Press edition uses the older Gallican psalter of St. Jerome.
D. 383), known as the Roman, is still used at St Peter's in Rome, but the "Gallican", thanks especially to St Gregory of Tours, who introduced it into Gaul in the 6th century, has ousted it everywhere else.
For instance, Gregorian chant was created in Metz during the 8th century as a fusion of Gallican and ancient Roman repertory.
In 1693 he compelled French bishops to retract the four propositions relating to the Gallican Liberties which had been formulated by the assembly of 1682.
Piety and religion Louis XIV encouraged Catholic missions through the creation of the Paris Foreign Missions Society Louis was a pious and devout king who saw himself as the head and protector of the Gallican Church.
Respecting the parishes (paroeciae) claimed by Leontius, Bishop of Arles, as belonging to his jurisdiction, the Gallican bishops could decide, after an investigation.
The power of the absolute monarchy was manifested by its suppression of Jansenist and Gallican religious opposition.
This electronic version, however, is commonly mutilated, lacking all formatting, notes, prefaces and apparatus, and often lacking the Gallican Psalter and Apocrypha.