This canopy was known as the ciborium or tegurium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
The altar is covered, at least in basilicas and also in large churches, by a canopy supported by columns, called the ciborium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Here is a closer view of the new altar and its ciborium. From Wordnik.com. [Renovations: Sacred Heart, Lombard, Illinois] Reference
A closer look at the free-standing altar with the ciborium. From Wordnik.com. [An Irish Ciborium and the Ciborium Generally] Reference
Such a ciborium is sometimes also referred to as a baldachin. From Wordnik.com. [Ciborium] Reference
And please put the altar beneath a ciborium magnum, gleaming in burnished gold. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-16] Reference
The altar was wholly of gold, and its ciborium and the iconastasis were of silver. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The Germans had fired shots around the lock in order to get possession of the ciborium. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
The emblem of St. Clare is a monstrance, and in art she is frequently represented with a ciborium. From Wordnik.com. [SAINT CLARE, VIRGIN, FOUNDRESS OF THE POOR CLARES 1193-1253] Reference
Sadly, even the ciborium of Fr. Adrian Fortescue's parish of St. Hugh in Letchworth did not survive. From Wordnik.com. [More from Conception Abbey] Reference
At this moment of the picture I saw a vessel like a ciborium being formed among the choirs of angels. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference
She replaced the lid of the ciborium and set the vessel in a more protected spot under a jutting rock. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
Most often when we see a ciborium magnum today, it comes in the context of a classical or romanesque idiom. From Wordnik.com. [Possibilities for the Ciborium Magnum in Neo-Gothic Churches] Reference
The ciborium in Bari is also decorated with mosaic; it has four columns with foliage, animals and mythological figures. From Wordnik.com. [Ciborium] Reference
Click to enlarge and see the beautiful detailing of the ciborium magnum, as well as the patterns behind the candlesticks. From Wordnik.com. [Adrian Fortescue and St. Hugh of Lincoln] Reference
Turning to the people and holding the ciborium in his left hand, he lifts up a Sacred Host to the people in his right hand. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 2 (of 4)] Reference
And certainly it is imprudent to go along a row of people with the ciborium leaving them to make the decision there and then. From Wordnik.com. [Holy Communion and Prime Ministers] Reference
What do you think -- are the particles in a ciborium, left by inadvertence, outside the corporal during consecration consecrated?. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
A ciborium magnum would add yet more to this as it would further lend itself to the central and symbolic importance of the altar. From Wordnik.com. [Renovations: St. Mary Church, Marietta, Ohio] Reference
The ciborium magnum will include marble Corinthian columns that will incorporate designs of the crown of thorns and Passion flower. From Wordnik.com. [Renovations: Sacred Heart, Lombard, Illinois] Reference
Over the high altar is a large wooden crosier, gilt, from which to suspend the ciborium, similar to that we saw in the cathedral of Dol. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
His free hand still clutched the ciborium, but he had tipped it in falling, and the top had come off, spilling several of the small Hosts. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
During the Agnus Dei he approached the tabernacle in the most routine way, took out a ciborium, and placed it on the left end of the altar. From Wordnik.com. [What were you thinkin'?] Reference
And all passed away, as the Cardinal bent above the grating, with the ciborium in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [En Route] Reference
In these same cloisters are some delightful figures of saints, in high relief, from an old ciborium. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
A fragment of one of the four columns which supported the ciborium above the high altar has been found in the apse. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
And while he descended the steps and communicated two women, Durtal trembled, and his desires went forth towards the ciborium. From Wordnik.com. [En Route] Reference
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