Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-27
PRIEsTLY vEsTMENTs.
Beautiful and Costly Things that the
Cardinal Nay Wear at
New York SUM-

The coming high mass on Christmas
day at the new Cathedral will be q
eeremonyo. .reat splendor, and about
$4,000 will probably be represented
in the vestmeltS of the Cardinal and
officiating clergy, without reckoning
the iewelry that the former may wear,
He possesses a pastoral cross Of dia
monds, worth $1,000, which was pre-
sented him by the Sisters of Mount
Vincent, and formerly belonged to a
member of the Spanish roysl family.
He has also a series Of costly rings,
each of which is worn on a
special festival day. His cloth Of
gold mass vestments were made in
Paris, and cost 5000. They comprise
a ehasuble, including stoles and mani
pies, a veil, four pes, and four dali
maticas. For e CEREMONY of his
investiture as Z he was pre-
scented with2 red Sicily
silk, all in on. lece. NC a train
fifteen feet long. It. trimmed
with ermine, and is repor TO have
cost $1,000. He wears underneath this
a red cassOck, a rocket of yellow lace
to the knee, and alb of white lace,
both very costly, and a silk tunic,
varying IN color, according to the
festival on which it is worn. One of
his broad-hI med hats is of red cloth,
and the fof red silk. These,
with tn ia the chamois leather.
the GLOW d the slippers, are items
Of min ense. The hats may be
rated Oh.
Yes ments of the clergy at large
vary realty according to the wealth
Of churches, and are often donated by
parishioners. Those offs village priest
cost inside of $50 and those Ofan
archbishop or bishop often reach
$1,000. Each of the latter function
aries has two mitres, costing from Sl1
to 500, the second mitre being about
half the value of thefrst. The names
OF Catholic vestments are but little
known, even to Catholics, aud few
people at a mass can give an inquirer
information respecting them. Each
religion, at its formation, like each
new government, bOrrows greatly
from the theories and forms Of those
preceding it. Catholic yestments
greatly resemble those Of the pagan
priests of ancient Rome, and have
varied little in form a%ndgeneral repect
since their original adoption. A mum
Der worn in the middle ages, and
handed down as relics throughout
Europe, are substantially the same as
those now seen. Mass, high mass,
and vespers have been contemplated
through a roll of fifteen centuries in
their aspect of to-day,
Most striking, perhaps, to the eye,
among the mass garments Of priests, is
the oblong cape with a large cross up
on it, which hangs at the back. This
is the chasuble. The cost of ehasubles
varies from 81 to S315, according to
material and embroidery. The latter
are of the choicest silk, satin or velvet,
and heavy with gold embroidery. Ac-
companying the chasuble. included in
its cost. and in keeping with its rich
ness, is the maniple, which hangs on
the arm, the stole hanging from the
neck; the chalice veil or cloth which
covers the chalice or wine cup at times
during the taking of the sacrament;
the pail, also placed at times on the
ehaliee, and the square burse, which
is alternatelylaid upon the chalice and
upon the altar. The cope or robe,
which rises stifly to a point behind
the head, ranges in price from $l1 to
$3.50, the dalmaticas, which form a
double cape, hanging both at the front
and back, run from Sl5 20 $3.50, and
include in their cost a stole and 2 man
iples. The alb or white lace garment
which covers the soutane or black
robe to the feet costs from 81 to $50,
the latter being rich Brussels lace;
SUPPLIES are of white Swiss lace at S.
to Brussels at $50. Nottingham and
French laees are at intermediate fig
ures. BenedictiOn wells are from Sc
to 800, preaching stoles s. to $75.and
confession stOles from 81 to 81. The
cost Of the yestments worn by the gen.
crafty of priests is a medium between
the above extremes. Canopies held
over the principal ceIebrant during
professions vary from $50 to S225; ante
p%endiums, held at times before the
altar, Sl5 to $40; umbrellinos. held
during professions, $50 to so; and
pals for collins $40 to S35. Berettas
and other minor articles vary from 81
to s..
The colors worn at Lenten ceremo-
MES are purple and black; at the Feast
of Martyrs, red; the Sunday after
Trinity and Sunday before Advent.
purple; and at all other times white
and gold. Altar boys wear hassocks
Of the same colOrs as the officiating
priests, having over them white sur
plices. Acolytes, who cary candles
at the head ofprOcessions, the same.