ostensorium
Americannoun
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Origin of ostensorium
First recorded in 1750–60
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Be fore him stood a tall ostensorium worth $35,000, an altar vessel made of gold objects, diamonds and other jewels donated last winter by thousands of Louisiana Catholics.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is inclosed in its golden ostensorium, its jeweled monstrance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ostensorium is one of the vessels used at the altar, in celebrating the mass.
From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
The old ostensorium, with its inscription just as plainly to be read to-day as when engraved over two centuries ago, can now be seen among the treasures of the State Historical Society, at Madison.
From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
The celebrant, having received the ostensorium, rises, gives the benediction, consigns the ostensorium to the deacon, and kneels once more on the extremity of the predella.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
Entitled "Treasures of Sacred Art," it has been culled from normally inaccessible church collections in Rome and nearby Latium. eluded in brilliant array are coffers, crosses, monstrances, ostensoria, chalices, candlesticks, vestments.
From Time Magazine Archive
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