Catholic Mass in the 15th Century

Here’s what a Roman Catholic Mass looked like in the 15^th Century.

Note the screen (in place of an altar rail) that separates the people from the altar .  (Jewish temples had curtains to separate the people from the Holiest of Holies).

Note that the priest enters from the side and not the rear of the church.

Note that only the priest gives a sign of peace and only to his altar server.

Note how the peasants are having a good time!

Historical Recreation of a 15th Century Catholic Latin Mass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSJ7LqZLYQ

This video is an historical reconstruction of a Roman Rite mass as it would have been done October 4, 1450, 18th Sunday after Pentecost.

This video was made together with the Parrish, Kristi Lekamens Katolska församling i Visby, and sung in one of the medieval churches of the Island of Gotland.

Anders Piltz, the priest is a professor of Latin at Lunds University and is also a real Catholic priest.

The Cantor is Mattias Östborn also cantor at the Catholic Church of Visby.

All this happened some years ago.