purificators

The "purificators" are small napkins of linen for cleansing the vessels after the service.

The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness 1903

They who first referred this malady to the gods appear to me to have been just such persons as the conjurors, purificators, mountebanks, and charlatans now are, who give themselves out for being excessively religious, and as knowing more than other people.

On The Sacred Disease 2007

He tore open drawers, and drew out their slimy, mildewed contents, sniffed ominously at the stuffy atmosphere, flung aside with gestures of contempt some of Mrs. Darcy's dearest treasures, such as a magnificent reredos of blue paper with gold stars; held up gingerly, and with curled lip, corporals and purificators, and wound up the awful inspection with the sentence: --

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

The purificators are always prepared without starch.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Last night I took all the dirty purificators, palls, and corporals to wash them -- separately, of course

La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

They are also in receipt of a paten and chalice for the Eucharist, with the commitment of purificators and other linens promised to them by a kind benefactor here in Ireland.

Clerical Whispers 2009

Before soiled corporals, palls, and purificators are given to nuns or lay persons to be laundried, bleached, mended or ironed, they must be first washed, then rinsed twice by a person in sacred orders (Cong.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913