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Ciborium - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | ial3wpcov, the cup-shaped seed-vessel of the Egyptian water-lily, the seeds or nuts of which were known as "Egyptian beans." In the early Christian Church the ciborium was a canopy over the altar, supported on columns, and from it hung the receptacle in which was reserved the consecrated wafer of the Eucharist. |
 | | s.v.)," Ciborium vas esse ad ferendos cibos." In the Eastern Church the columns rested on the altar itself, in the Western they reached the ground. |
 | | The name was early transferred from the canopy to the vessel containing the reserved sacrament, and in the Western Church the canopy was known as a "baldaquin," Ital. |
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