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Monstrance   Listen
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monstrance  n.  (R. C. Ch.) A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.






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"Monstrance" Quotes from Famous Books



... gold, then the cross-bearer, young men as chanters, little boys, most strangely attired in white satin knee-breeches and short lace skirts, scattering rose-leaves from open baskets at their sides; the cure came bearing the monstrance and Host, followed by Sisters with little girls in their charge; lastly was a mixed throng of parishioners. Most of the women held rosaries, and a few of them, bent with age, carried upon their heads the very cap that old Mother Hubbard wore, if tradition and English ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker

... truth had brought to the madness of the unreal; and those limbs were being gilded like the columns of a tabernacle, that trunk was becoming a star, shimmering with yellow and red, splendid and unnatural. Such strange nudity—like unto a monstrance gleaming with precious stones and intended for religious adoration—brought her anger to a climax. She had suffered too much, she ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola

... by a sliding panel; another by two secret cupboards over the fire-place, and its recess fitted as an oratory; another by a magnificent piece of tapestry representing Saint Clara and Saint Thomas of Aquin, each holding a monstrance, with a third great monstrance in the centre, supported ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson



Words linked to "Monstrance" :   Roman Church, Western Church, proof, Church of Rome, demonstration, vessel, ostensorium



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