But it was difficult to pour new wine into old bottles, and the reformers found it more profitable to leave the old capitular bodies severely alone, and to devote their efforts to the foundation of new communities.
More successful to a small degree was the plan of Bishop Ivo of Chartres and others to revive among the capitular bodies the rule of common life.
Thus no body of ecclesiastics stood in need of thorough reform more than thecapitular clergy, and no class proved so hard to deal with.
But in the two succeeding centuries there was no class of clergy which fell so far from the ideal as the capitular clergy.
The capitular changes were chiefly the work of one sweeping Act which applied to the Chapters as a body (3 and 4 Vict.
Diego de la Asuncion, preacher, is not mentioned in any of the lists of missions, capitular tables, or book of the deceased.
And, by what in continental eyes seemed a strange laxity of discipline, priests, bishops, members of capitular bodies, were often married.
Marriage was forbidden for the future; the capitular clergy had to part from their wives; but the vested interest of the parish priest was respected.
Exclusive of the sovereign and princes of the blood, and foreign sovereigns and princes, it consists of twelvecapitular knights of the rank of count or Freiherr.
Bath as a companionship or capitular body was instituted the last creation of them was at the coronation of Charles II.
It has two divisions, each of five classes, of capitular knights and honorary members.
In his last year the Archbishop had to restrain the proctors of absent canons from acting independently in the administration of the prebends, and from exercising capitular authority.
All the ribs at their upper extremity articulate only with the transverse processes of the vertebrae; their capitular processes when present not articulating directly with the bodies of the vertebrae.
Several of the anterior ribs with well-developed capitular processes, which articulate with the bodies of the vertebrae.
Digging was begun near the door of the capitular room and in a short time an unmarked grave was found containing human remains and military insignia.
Throughout the whole reign elections by capitular bodies were constantly set at nought.
The bishop, fully robed, went first into the capitular chapel and then to the chapel of the Holy Sacrament, where the dead Christ was laid out in a tomb, took the Host and brought it out, being then bareheaded beneath a canopy.
So, at least, a manuscript in the capitular archives relates.
The spiritual administration of any of the bishoprics that fall vacant devolves upon the metropolitan archbishop, and the latter is the one empowered to appoint a provisor or capitular vicar.
When the episcopal see becomes vacant, inasmuch as it has no cabildo its government belongs to his Excellency the metropolitan archbishop, who appoints a provisor or capitular vicar.
Truly in a capitular election, if anywhere, the better part of valour is discretion, and the Dean and Chapter of Hereford have realized this saving truth.
The Sala Capitular contains a statue of Santa Teresa by Alonso Cano, and images of saints by J.
Finally, a capitular government in missionary countries was a physical impossibility, and would disrupt the whole Order.
The names of many of the choristers and the amounts of the oblations offered for the boy-bishops are the subject of many entries in the capitular registers of both English and continental churches.
Modern antiquaries are wellnigh agreed upon the earlier dates; for in the Capitular Register, begun in 1329, there is no mention of the spire, which could hardly have escaped record had so important a work been then in progress.
And I desire that, if possible, he should be appointed Vicar-Capitular in the event of my death.
I wish him to be Vicar-Capitular of my diocese, if possible, in the event of my death.
It became a point of honour with capitular bodies to lay more stress on maintaining their chartered rights against the Bishop than on working with the Bishop to promote the ends for which both Bishops and Chapters were founded.
Some of our capitular records would be excellently suited for a place in the series issued by the Master of the Rolls.
But this was not the only instance of the spirit of local and corporate isolation which is supplied by the history of capitular bodies.
We have seen that Reginald the brother of Archdeacon John restored the capitular estate.
But it is certain that, if our capitular bodies are to be of any use at all, they must be restored to their old broad basis.
One very natural part of his functions is now very efficiently discharged among us, but it is discharged by other members of the capitular body, and by them hardly in their capitular character.
All the old capitular bodies were framed upon one general model, the essential features of which they retain to this day.
At all events, the failure of the first attempt at capitular election was enough for her, and she did not repeat the experiment.
In the Sala Capitular of the Cathedral of Gerona there are three splendid processional crosses belonging to the 15th and 16th centuries; one of them is of enamelled gold, and is undoubtedly one of the most artistic works of the kind in Spain.
Some were covered with wood carvings in a similar style to the large armoires in the Sala Capitular at Toledo.
The capitular members assembled in the year 1665 to elect a provincial, as the father commissary, Fray Felipe Pardo, had completed his office.
