How often did medieval peasants go to church?

Answer 1

ask why modern people don't go to church. Everyone else did.

Today we are born in hospitals, and we die in hospitals. Funerals are built around dead bodies that have been carefully altered to look lifelike. Infant mortality is Why_did_people_go_to_church_in_medieval_timeslow, and people live a long time. A person can live to be ninety and never see anyone die.

In the middle ages, people were born at home, and they died at home. The Infant Mortality Rate was about 35%, and most people had siblings who had not survived. Everyone saw people die. People knew death, they understood death, and death was part of everyday life, an everpresent fact.

When people understand death, most either become religious or cynical. In those days, at least, it was considered better to be religious.

And of course, the Church wanted you to go. The Church offered inducements to go, and there was no advantage for most people not to go.

I would go on to say that many people regarded church as a way to have some relief from life, and maybe even have some fun. The Canterbury Tales depicts a lively, fun loving group of people who are having a Why_did_people_go_to_church_in_medieval_timesbased on a religious excuse as much as being pilgrims for entirely devout reasons.

Answer 2

Most of the population only attended church on Sundays, on the feast days of the Saints and at the various Holy Days in the calendar - Lent, Easter, Epiphany and so on. Baptisms, burials and weddings also took place at the church.

Weekdays (including Saturdays) would normally be spent working from sunrise to dawn, so there was no time for church services, unless there were some special reason for doing so - an illness in the family, an unfortunate accident or disease among the animals, when the family would go to pray for Divine assistance.

Answer 3

every day

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I would think most medieval peasants went to Church at least once per week.

Some medieval peasants lived in hamlets that had no church and were too far from a village church to go to services even once every week. This was a real problem for Church authorities of the time.

Some medieval peasants were Muslim or Jewish, particularly in Spain, Malta, and parts of Italy and the Balkans. They did not normally attend church at all. Some peasants were pagan, but they were usually made to convert to Christianity.

I have read various people's comments to the effect that peasants went to church every day, but I have never seen it documented. Nor have I ever seen any law requiring secular people to go to Church daily, as people in monasteries would. I have read of laws that supposed at least weekly attendance, such as laws pertaining to peasants' practicing Archery on Sundays at the church yard, but never anything requiring more attendance than that.

Answer 4

They went to church a lot, Church and christianity was very important to them, because they believed they would burn in hell if they didn't go to church, as I said when they were sick they would go to church and pray.

Answer 5

3 days a week

Answer 6

every sunday