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Altar

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Hanukka

brothers and the whole congregation of Israel in 165 b c to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted

Piscina

A niche near the altar in a church containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels

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Retrochoir

Any extension of a church behind the high altar as a chapel also in an apsidal church all the space beyond the line of the back or

Ciborium

A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns covering the high altar or very rarely a secondary altar

Ostension

The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that it may receive the adoration of the communicants

Reredos

Reredos, an ornamental screen covering the wall at the altar, see Philpotts v. Boyd, (1876) LR 6 CP 435.

Luminare

Luminare, a lamp or candle set burning on the altar of any church or chapel, for the maintenance whereof land and rent-charges were frequently given to parish churches,

Lammas

obliged, at the time of Mass, on the 1st of August, to bring a live lamb to the altar. In Scotland they are said to wear lambs on this day. It may be corrupted from latter-math. Others

Faldstool, or foldstool

Faldstool, or foldstool, a place at the south side of the altar, at which the sovereign kneels at his coronation.

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