11 Facts About Mozarabic Rite

Mozarabic Rite, officially called the Hispano-Mozarabic Rite, and in the past called or the Hispanic Rite, is a liturgical rite of the Latin Church once used generally in the Iberian Peninsula, in what is Spain and Portugal.

Mozarabic Rite claimed that the Hispanic Rite was suffering from neglect and that those charged with its celebration in Toledo had forgotten how to perform the chants and liturgy in the correct manner.

Mozarabic Rite attempted to rectify the situation by forbidding the giving of benefices to ignorant clergymen and insisted that the rite be celebrated by knowledgeable ones.

In 1484, Carillo's successor, Cardinal Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, ordered that the Mozarabic Rite parishes were to be respected as free institutions, and attempted to curb the decline of these parishes by limiting the incursions of Roman parishioners into these churches, as well as the exodus of Mozarabs to wealthier Roman parishes.

The Mozarabic Rite clergy sought papal confirmation of Mendoza's decree and obtained it from Pope Innocent VII in the bull Fiat ut petitur.

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Mozarabic Rite was so impressed that he ordered these taken to his personal library in order to examine them more closely.

Mozarabic Rite was influenced in this endeavor by the scholarly edition of the Missale Mixtum published by Jesuit Alexander Lesley in 1755, which both revealed grammatical and orthographic errors in the Latin and put the authenticity of some of the prayers therein into question.

The Mozarabic Rite Mass was said in St Peter's in 2015 by Archbishop Braulio Rodriguez Plaza of Toledo.

Mozarabic Rite dated the Tradition A manuscripts of Santa Eulalia from the 8th to the 12th centuries, while the Tradition B codices linked with Santas Justa y Rufina were dated to the 10th to 12th centuries.

Mozarabic Rite was the first to use ashes within the liturgical celebrations of the Church.

Mozarabic Rite has been of interest to non-Catholic communions as well.