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The Dictionary of Christian Antiquities gives a complete account of the leading persons, institutions, art, social life, writings, and controversies of the Christian Church from the time of the Apostles to the age of Charlemagne. Ending with Charlemagne’s reign, which forms the important link between the ancient and the modern, the first eight centuries of the Christian era are covered up until...

book informs us, built a campanile at S. Andrea Apostolo, and placed there a bell with a brazen hammer. [A. N.] . [EXCOMMUNICATION.] .—The name campanum or campana is commonly said to have been given to bells, because they were invented by Paullinus of Nola in Campania. Paullinus, however, who more than once describes churches, never mentions bells, and the more probable supposition is, that bells in early times were cast from Campanian brass, which Pliny
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