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CHASUBLE Green for this Sunday's Mass, from casula or "little house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 26, 1998 | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...chasuble used in liturgical celebration developed out of everyday Greco-Roman clothing; an enveloping cloak (Latin name: casula, or little house), worn over the tunic, was adopted by the church some time after the 4th century A.D. Made of wool at first, the chasuble-with the increasing availability of silk around the 10th and 11th centuries-gradually acquired a dazzling sumptuousness. The epitome of this was opus Anglicanum, or "English work," a taxingly intricate method of embroidery that flourished in London guild shops during the 13th and 14th centuries. The Met possesses one rare example, the so-called Chichester-Constable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vestments in the Grand Old Style | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

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