ciborium

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"My idea in designing the Memorial," he wrote, "was to erect a kind of ciborium to protect a statue of the Prince; and its special characteristic was that the ciborium was designed in some degree on the principles of the ancient shrines.

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  1. noun A vaulted canopy permanently placed over an altar.
  2. noun A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.

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  • He does not come down from Heaven each day in order to remain in a golden ciborium, but to find another Heaven—the Heaven of our souls in which He takes such delight. —  The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Ame)
  • It is during this same period, the 4th century, that we see the advent of the ciborium magnum. —  New Liturgical Movement
  • An interesting description of the great ciborium that was originally in the Lateran basilica is included in the Catholic Encyclopedia: —  New Liturgical Movement
  • Suspended from the arches of the ciborium, or in close proximity to the altar, were "four crowns of purest gold, with twenty dolphins, each fifteen pounds, and before the altar was a chandelier of gold, with eighty dolphins, in which pure nard was burned". —  New Liturgical Movement
  • Rather, "any lights used were also hung from [the ciborium], or stood on the steps, or on the podium -- that is, the screen of open columns between the altar and nave, which may still be seen in the Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome." —  New Liturgical Movement
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  1. Medieval Latin cibōrium, from Latin, a drinking cup, from Greek kibōrion, probably of Egyptian origin.

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  1. Middle Latin (later F. ciboire = Provencal cibori = Portuguese Italian ciborio), from Latin ciborium, a drinking-vessel, from Greek κιβώριον, the seed-vessel of the Egyptian bean, a cup made of it or like it; cf. κιβωτός, with diminutive κιβώτιον, a wooden box, chest.
 

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