| 单词 | mass rock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmass rock mass rock n. Irish History a large flat rock used as an outdoor altar by Irish Catholics when the open celebration of mass was illegal. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > land > structures of or in land > [noun] > rock at which mass is celebrated mass rock1914 1914 W. P. Burke Irish Priests in Penal Times p. vii The ‘Mass Rock’.., the ‘Priests' Hollow’,..and many a similar name..are witnesses..to a hunted priesthood. 1932 H. Concannon Blessed Eucharist in Irish Hist. xix. 389 Around a great stone, ‘a Mass rock’,..the parishioners were assembled for Mass. 1997 Let's Go Ireland 61 Early in the 18th century, Catholics exercised their religion furtively, using hidden, big, flat rocks (Mass rocks) when altars were unavailable. < as lemmas |
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