Pre-Tridentine Mass  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
to: navigation, search  The term Pre-Tridentine Mass here refers
to the variants of the liturgical rite of Mass in Rome before
1570, when, with his bull Quo primum, Pope Pius V made the Roman
Missal, as revised[1] by him, obligatory throughout the Latin-
Rite or Western Church, except for those places and
congregations whose distinct rites could demonstrate an
antiquity of 200 years or more.  The Pope made this revision of
the Roman Missal, which included the introduction of the Prayers
at the Foot of the Altar and the addition of all that in his
Missal follows the Ite missa est, at the request that the
Council of Trent (1545–63) presented to his predecessor at its
final session.[2]  Outside of Rome in the period before 1570,
many other liturgical rites were in use, not only in Eastern
Christianity, but also in the West. Some of the Western rites,
such as the Mozarabic Rite, were unrelated to the Roman Rite
that Pope Pius V revised and ordered to