sacristy

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Over the entrance to the sacristy is a fresco by Guido Reni of Elijah the prophet fed by an angel.

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  1. noun A room in a church housing the sacred vessels and vestments; a vestry.

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  • In this process of endeavouring to trace the development of Michelangelo's ideas for the sacristy, seven original drawings at the British Museum are of the greatest importance. —  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti
  • She said the lock of the sacristy was already destroyed when she arrived to clean the church. —  Bisaya Bloggers
  • The pulpit of the same period is also fine: it now stands, divided into two, on each side of the entrance, while the lions which supported it are on the balustrade in front of the cathedral (see E. Brunelli in L'Arte_, Rome, 1901, 59; D. Scano, ibid. 204). Near the sacristy are also some Gothic chapels of the Aragonese period. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • There was a lighted room like a sacristy, and a faint scent of incense drifted in from the door which led into the church. —  Hugh Memoirs of a Brother
  • The door is of solid oak, substantially built In the sacristy is a double lavatory of solid sandstone, hewn and arranged for flowing water. —  The Old Franciscan Missions Of California
 

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  1. Middle English sacristie, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin sacristia, from sacrista, sacristan; see sacristan.

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  1. from Middle English *sacristie, from Old French (and F.) sacristie = Provencal sacristia, sagrestia = Catalan sagristia = Spanish sacristía = Portuguese sacristia = Italian sacristia, sacrestia, sagristia, sagrestia, from Middle Latin sacristia, a vestry in a church, from sacrista, a sacristan: see sacrist. Cf. sextry, a contracted form of the same word.
 

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/ˈsækrɪsti/
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