Progress of the Roman Catholic Departure from Primitive Christianity.
The Chronologische Anzeiger of Reyner gives the following aperçu of the “development” of practices in the Church of Rome: “The use of Holy Water was introduced in the year 120; Penance, in 157; Monks appeared in 348; the Latin Mass, in 391; Extreme Unction, in 550; Purgatory, in 593; the Invocation of Mary and the Saints, in 715; Kissing the feet of the Pope, in 809; the Canonization of Saints and the Beatification of the Blessed, in 893; Blessing Bells, in 1000; the Celibacy of Priests, in 1015; Indulgences, in 1119; Dispensations, in 1200; the Elevation of the Host, in 1200; the Inquisition, in 1204; Oral Confession, in 1215; the Immaculate Conception, in 1860; Infallibility, in 1870.”