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A blossary of items used during the Christian eucharistic services.

Category: Religion

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The humeral veil is one of the liturgical vestments of the Roman Rite, also used in some Anglican and Lutheran churches. It consists of a piece of cloth about 2.75 m long and 90 cm wide draped over ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

A flabellum is a fan made of metal, leather, silk, parchment or feathers, intended to keep away insects from the consecrated Body and Blood of Christ and from the priest, as well as to show honour.

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

A ciborium is a vessel, normally in metal. It was originally a particular shape of drinking cup in Ancient Greece and Rome, but later used to refer to a large covered cup designed to hold hosts for, ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

The corporal is a square white linen cloth, now usually somewhat smaller than the breadth of the altar, upon which the chalice and paten, and also the ciborium containing the smaller hosts for the ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

A pyx is a small round container used in the Catholic, Old Catholic and Anglican Churches to carry the consecrated host, to the sick or those otherwise unable to come to a church in order to ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

A monstrance, also known as ostensorium, is the vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic and Anglican churches to display the consecrated Eucharistic host, during Eucharistic adoration or ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

A credence table is a small side table in the sanctuary of a Christian church which is used in the celebration of the Eucharist. The credence table is usually placed near the wall on the epistle ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Christianity

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