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Ciborium   Listen
noun
Ciborium  n.  (pl. ciboria)  
1.
(Arch.) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.
2.
(R. C. Ch.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.





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"Ciborium" Quotes from Famous Books



... the tabernacle and takes out the Blessed Sacrament to give holy communion to the people. Turning to the people and holding the ciborium in his left hand, he lifts up a Sacred Host to the people in his right hand. Now say with the priest ...
— Baltimore Catechism No. 2 (of 4) • Anonymous
... basilica which shelters it." If this precious object is there, the remains must a fortiori be there also. Here comes the decisive test. In the spring of 1594, while Giacomo della Porta was levelling the floor of the church above the Confession, removing at the same time the foundations of the Ciborium of Julius II., the ground gave way, and he saw through the opening what nobody had beheld since the time of Sergius II.,—the grave of S. Peter,—and upon it the golden cross of Constantine. On ...
— Pagan and Christian Rome • Rodolfo Lanciani
... and Protector of that city, and in a coffer of variegated marble, three braccia long, which I have had restored, are the bones of four Saints. And the predella of the altar, which surrounds it all right round in due proportion, has in front of it the tabernacle, or rather ciborium, of the Sacrament, made of carved wood and all gilt, about three braccia high; which tabernacle is in the round and can be seen as well from the side of the choir as from in front. And because I have spared no labour ...
— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Volume 1, Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi • Giorgio Vasari


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