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Popular piety is an expression of the profound religious feeling of people at a given moment in space and time. The various sets of "Little
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sacramentals to access divine power in times of need, part of a "covert evangelical sacramentalism" that
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brought advantages such as ensuring that the doctrinal content reflected the faith in its purity, but its new fixity made it seem the reserve of the clergy and reinforced a division between liturgy and popular piety.
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Lutheran poet and hymn writer Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676) became the most influential source of orthodox
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Sundays and weekdays in honour of particular saints or mysteries were instituted. Entire months of the year were given over to special devotions, the most widespread being: January (
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