Description - The Ornaments of the Ministers by Percy Dearmer
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ... these shoes were, like many other Ornaments, at first a mark of general honour, and not specially distinctive of any order, is shown by a letter of St. Gregory the Great, also in the 6th century, to Bishop John of Syracuse, in which Gregory points out that the deacons of Catania had audaciously assumed campagi, a privilege which had hitherto distinguished the deacons of Messina alone from all other deacons in Sicily. In the Middle Ages, when people generally covered the feet, bishops enjoyed still a special equipment of Buskins or Caligae, and richly ornamented 'Sandals' as the liturgical Shoes have since been called. In the Roman Church of to-day these sandals follow the colour of the season, but originally they were black, lined and decorated with white leather. The ornamental Mediaeval form will be noticed on the ancient bishop's effigies in our Cathedrals. CHAPTER X The Stole In Latin: Orarium, Stola. In Greek: Orarion, Epitrachelior.. (Illustrated in Plates II, 15, 46.) WE have said in Chapter III that the ancients had to carry or wear their napkins and handkerchiefs because they had no pockets. The Orarium or Stole was originally nothing but a napkin; and it is on record that the Emperor Aurelian (a.d. 270--5) gave the people oraria to wave by way of applause at the public games, just as nowadays handkerchiefs are waved. The orarium was carried by servants generally on the left shoulder; and thus the deacons, who were the servants of the Church, (diakonos being indeed the Greek for 'servant') naturally bore on the shoulder the strip of linen which they needed in order to cleanse the vessels at the Holy Communion. This strip came to be folded; and thus lost its usefulness, and became a vestment distinctive of the deacon. In the East this must have hap...
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Religious Pamphlets Selected and Arranged by the Percy Dearmer. with an Introd. and Notes
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