Word: vestment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patriarch mounted the rostrum in the middle of the nave. Acolytes ceremonially stripped him of his outer robes and crown. Then over the Patriarch's shoulders they draped three layers of bright, resurrection-season vestments-scarlet and gold in place of silver, a crown of gold and rubies for the pearl-and-diamond one. As each vestment was presented to him on a velvet-covered silver salver, the Patriarch reverently kissed it. For the last time the acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object...
...origins deals with epiphanies. "By an epiphany [Stephen] meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. . . ." When one perceives the epiphany of an object, "its soul, its whatness leaps out to [one] from the vestment of its appearance . . . [becoming] that thing which it is. . . ." Stephen felt that it is the artist's duty to record epiphanies...