Identifier: massvestmentsofc00wals (find matches)
Title: The mass and vestments of the Catholic church, liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archaeological
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walsh, John, 1847-1919
Subjects: Mass Church vestments
Publisher: Troy, N. Y., Troy times art press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the Roman people. Addis and Arnoldin the Catholic Dictionary conjecture that as thegarment was tucked around the neck in runningor other violent exercise, this suggested its presentliturgic form. Wilpert after a close study of thefrescoes of the catacombs concludes there was,beside the garment, also a pallium-scarf whichdeveloped into the ecclesiastical pallium, and the evi-dence he adduces in confirmation of this theory isconclusive enough to create a strong presumptionof its truth. The archiepiscopal pallium is a band of whitewool worn on the shoulders. Its earliest form isshown in the Ravenna mosaics—that of a narrowslip of cloth passed over the left shoulder, loopedloosely around the neck, and then passed over theleft shoulder again so that the two ends hangfree, one in front, the other behind. Its nextevolution was to bring the free end to the middle,and knotting it into the lowest point of the loop.The final form is that of an oval, with a long tail 490 The Mass and Vestments
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ANCIENT FRESCO OK ST. CLEMENT AT THE ALTAR. FROM THE SUBTERRANEAN CHURCH OF ST CLEMENTE, ROME. ILLUSTRATING THE PALLIUM, ELEVENTH CENTURY pendent representing a capital Y on the front andback, and four black crosses worked on the ovaland one on each pendant. It is worn by the Pope and sent by him topatriarchs, primates, archbishops and sometimes tobishops as a token that they possess the fullnessof the Episcopal office. The bishoprics whichpossess this unique privilege as a symbol of honor,but not jurisdiction, are Autun, Bamberg, Dol,Lucca, Ostia, Pavia and Verona. The first certain example of this concession ofa pallium is the grant made to St. Caesarius ofAries by Pope Symmachus in 513. Supplementary Vestments m /

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