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  • They are often woven into the fabric on vestments and liturgical hangings or wrought in metalwork. The myth of Persephone, the dark goddess of ...
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  • The Copper Scroll states that a silver (or alabaster) chest, the vestments of the Cohen Gadol (Hebrew High Priest), gold and silver in great ...
    29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
  • Here controversies in connection with vestments, ceremonies, and the use of the English prayer-book awaited him and led in March 1555 to his ...
    27 KB (4,483 words) - 14:37, 18 August 2023
  • Then followed his degradation—he was enrobed in priestly vestments and again asked to recant; again he refused. With curses his ornaments were ...
    28 KB (4,685 words) - 08:56, 1 April 2024
  • and liturgical vessels, on rich ecclesiastic vestments, on precious diptychs intended for private devotion, on illuminated manuscripts, as well as ...
    29 KB (4,407 words) - 15:08, 30 December 2022
  • some have traced its influence to Christian vestments. There is a theory that Christians were responsible for burning Etruscan books in the fourth ...
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  • to avoid being recognized in their traditional vestments. Eventually, devotees developed a practice called "picking," where members sold nonreligious ...
    34 KB (5,270 words) - 13:23, 7 February 2023
  • that life has changed. Instead of the black vestments of previous years, the priest may be vested in white, violet, or, on occasion, black. The Mass ...
    37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
  • quot; is described as part of the priestly vestments of Aaron (Exodus 28:15-30). Attached to the ephod, the breastplate was adorned with twelve gemstones ...
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  • of Israel. These tribes were recorded on the vestments of the Kohen Gadol (high priest). However, when the land of Israel was apportioned among ...
    37 KB (5,635 words) - 16:06, 27 July 2021
  • be celebrated with all of the ceremony and vestments called for by the Book of Common Prayer. Laud was also an advocate of Arminian theology, a ...
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  • sought to abolish the episcopate, clerical vestments, and any authorized books of prayer. Radical Puritans went further, finding accommodation impossible ...
    56 KB (8,607 words) - 20:39, 9 April 2023
  • regional bishop when he is present. Likewise, vestments are valued to inculcate the solemnity of the Holy Eucharist and are typically more elaborate than ...
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  • Circumcision was abandoned, rabbis wore vestments modeled after Protestant ministers, and instrumental accompaniment—banned in Jewish Sabbath ...
    56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
  • as well as bread. Priests led services without vestments and recited portions of the mass in German rather than Latin. Masses for the dead were challenged; ...
    61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023

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