John Kent (numismatist) John Kent (numismatist) John Philip Cozens Kent (28 September 1928 – 22 October 2000) was a British numismatist. He was born the son of a railway official in Hertfordshire and educated at Minchenden Grammar School and University College, London, where he was awarded a BA in 1949 and a PhD in 1951. After two years National Service he was appointed Assistant Keeper in the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals. There his main interest was the coins of the late Roman Period, contributing to the reference book on "Late Roman Bronze Coinage" which was published in 1960. Other work
Collect meant the gathering of the people together (from "colligō", "to gather") and may have been applied to this prayer as said before the procession to the church in which Mass was celebrated. It may also have been used to mean a prayer that collected into one the prayers of the individual members of the congregation. A collect generally has five parts: In some contemporary liturgical texts, this structure has been obscured by sentence constructions that depart from the Latin flowing style of a single sentence. Initially, only one collect was said at Mass, but the Tridentine version of the Roman