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to have drawn this little treatise on the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ from a work composed by a learned French author. His work is complete and somewhat diffuse. I have composed and have published this abridgment because of the profit that may be de rived from it, not only by the priests who say Mass, but by the faithful who are present at it.

My little work bears the title "The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ," for, although we distinguish by different names the Sacrifice of the Cross from the Sacrifice of the Altar,