Word: ostensoria
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...sense of it from an exhibition organized at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome to mark the end of the Holy Year. Entitled "Treasures of Sacred Art," it has been culled from normally inaccessible church collections in Rome and nearby Latium. eluded in brilliant array are coffers, crosses, monstrances, ostensoria, chalices, candlesticks, vestments...
...Catholic stay-at-home could imagine the pretentious beauty of the masses & other ceremonies; he could picture thurifers, masters of ceremonies, acolytes in cassocks, surplices; be-mitered bishops, birettaed priests; gaudy canopies, ornate chasubles, elaborate dalmatics, humeral veils; bejewelled chalices, ostensoria, ciboria...
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