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dral as much as we cared to for the first time, we made our 

 call upon Don Jorje. He begged us to excuse him for recit- 

 ing the vesper office in choir, but when that was finished — and 

 we saw the Mozarabic canons file into their stalls and recite 

 the office — he put himself entirely at our service, and not only- 

 accompanied us over the cathedral again, but went with us 

 around the city and for a long excursion outside the walls and 

 across the Tagus. Altogether he was a charming man, his 

 chief regret, as he expressed it, being that he did not speak 

 English. One could tell by looking at him that he was of 

 Gothic origin, for I was asked to translate to him the remark 

 that he was one of the few Spaniards we had seen with brown 

 hair and the bluest of blue eyes. He accompanied us to the 

 Hotel Castilla and took cofifee with us, and on parting hoped 

 that he might some day visit New York, which we had de- 

 scribed to him, I am afraid somewhat grandiloquently. 



Up to i860 there were six Mozarabic churches in Toledo, 

 besides the chapel in the cathedral; now there are only two. 

 The Mozarabic Mass is said in the others at certain intervals 

 during the year, notably on St. James' day. There are also 

 some five other places in Spain where the Mozarabic rite is 

 celebrated on certain days in the year, so that the rite his- 

 torically may never die out there. The rite is a personal and 

 family privilege and belongs to those whose families have 

 always been Mozarab. Others who follow the Roman rite are 

 not permitted to pass over to the Mozarabic rite, nor are the 

 Mozarab families or individuals permitted to take up the 

 Roman rite except in case of marriage, where division of the 

 family may result from separate rites. The decay of the 

 Mozarabic rite represents, therefore, the dwindling numbers 

 of the representatives of the old Mozarab families. 



The Mozarabic Mass is peculiar in many points, and quite 

 Oriental in many of its characteristics. In some respects its 

 Latin is quite archaic, and the names for the various parts of 

 the Mass are quite different from the familiar names to which 

 we are accustomed. The Psalms are from the old Italic and 

 not from the Vulgate, and the expression Oremus is only 

 twice used in the Mass; once before the Agios, a prayer not 

 found in the Roman Mass, and again before the Pater Noster. 

 The Gradual is called the Psallendo, the Offertory, the Sacri- 

 iiciiim, the Preface, the Inlatio; while the Sanctus begins in 



