Word: ciborium
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Elegant & Expensive. Some of the merchandise is elegant and expensive. London Silversmith Gerald Benney, designer of the ciborium for Coventry's new cathedral, offers a squat, modern tea service for $1,080. Harry Hall Ltd., outfitters for sportsmen, has the latest foxhunting outfit for men, including riding whip, for $163. But many items are both stylish and moderately priced. For example, Wedgwood sells a five-piece setting of bone china...
...pious Vice President of the Commonwealth, Sergio Osmeña, Papal Legate Dougherty wept happily. Although many U. S. Catholics consider him a self- possessed, even arrogant man, his voice choked when he presented to Archbishop O'Doherty the Pope's gift to the Congress, a gold ciborium. For, as all the Philippines well knew, the arrival of the Cardinal was the homecoming of a churchman who had once labored there as missionary...
...Calumet, Mich, last week Rev. Joseph Alderic Paquet of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church declared that during mass he had unlocked the tabernacle on his altar, uncovered a ciborium to distribute Communion. To his amazement three fresh roses fell out, moistly spotted with what appeared to be blood. Father Paquet called the occurrence "mysterious" if not "miraculous...
...Blessed Sacrament is adored by every Roman Catholic as the true Body and Blood of Christ. It is a particle of unleavened bread, generally baked by nuns, and consecrated by the priest during mass. When not in use it rests in a ciborium (cuplike vessel) in the tabernacle, a stout box on the church's high altar. In time of stress the Blessed Sacrament is the priest's first concern. In Toledo one night last week Rev. Francis J. Keyes hastened into his church, St. Patrick's. The tabernacle containing the ciborium and Host was gone...