Word: ostensorium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moved a ''Eucharistic chariot"-a large float, draped in burgundy and gold fabrics, bearing the kneeling figure of George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and for this occasion a papal legate in a gold mitre and cloth of gold cope. Be fore him stood a tall ostensorium worth $35,000, an altar vessel made of gold objects, diamonds and other jewels donated last winter by thousands of Louisiana Catholics...
Holding aloft the costly ostensorium, which in a glass clip contained the Sacred Host-to Catholics the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ-Cardinal Mundelein gave to the 65,000 faithful the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament as lights in the Park blinked out and thousands of candles sprang into flickering glow. For a mercy, the rain held...
Last week teemed with emotion, activity, for His Holiness, Pope Pius XI. First arrived at the Vatican three Mexican hierarchs. To them His Holiness spoke words, of comfort and hope, promised to give Mexico a rich ostensorium which he received at the recent beatification of the French Revolutionary martyrs (TIME, Oct. 25). Next, a magnificent procession wound its way through crowded streets-towards the Coliseum, ancient centre of Paganism. In its midst, borne aloft on the shoulders of the faithful, was a huge cross. Made of wood, it contains pieces of olive trees from Gethsemane. It had been blessed...
...glory mount as the procession nears its end. Fifteen cardinals are coming, vanguard to the Host behind. Papal guards in scarlet, blue and yellow uniforms follow. Then comes, under a canopy of gold and surrounded by censor-bearing acolytes, the Blessed Sacrament. It is inclosed in its golden ostensorium, its jeweled monstrance. No less a personage may carry it than His Eminence, Giovanni Cardinal Bonzano, the legate of the Pope, the proxy for the very Church itself...
| 1 |