* Early priests consecrated the host to serve to hermits.
  • Reservation in monastaries for sick, hermits, sharing between parishes made common.
  • Host becomes major structure of monastic life.
  • Started to be held in ornate boxes near alter-early tabernacle.
  • After Pope Gregory VII firmly established Christ's presence (a heresy) public processions, adoration, in front of the tabernacle, viewing the tabernacle in monastaries spread.
  • Council of Trent a response to heresies and questioning so it exhaustively coveredreal presence, sacrifice, of the mass defined and clarified.
  • Pope Clement VII in 1592- forty hours- continuos prayer in front of Eucharist, formalized practice made rules.
  • Monastaries sprang up to only do perpetual adoration.
  • Benedictan ritual ladded in 1200's.
  • Vatican II dealt with dogma, reaffirmed adoration but put it second to the Mass. (Eucharist)