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‘’Unlike the other six sacraments, marriage was the only one not dispensed by the clergy but directly by the recipients themselves. Until the reforms of the Council of Trent, instituted in 1563[ce], it was legal for a man and a woman to marry without a priest and wherever they thought fit.’

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 666

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