The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-24
PRiEsTLx vEsTMENrs.
Beautiful and Costly Things That
the Cardinal May Wear at Christ
mas Mass.

the CaruthAi may wear -
mas Mass.
New York SUM-
The coming High Mass on Christmas
dav at the new Cathedral will be GER
emony of great splendor, and about
$4,000 will probably be represented IN
the vestments of the Cardinal and Off
ciating clergy, without reckoning the
jewelry that the former may wear. lie
possesses a pastoral cross of diamonds,
worth $1,000, which was presented him
by the Sisters of Mount Vincent, and
formerly belonged to member OF the
Spanish royal family. He has also a
series of costly rings, each of which is
worn on special festival day.
His cloth of gold mass vestments were
made in Paris, and cost $4,000. They
comprise "a chasuble, including
stoles and maniples, veil, four
copes, and four dalmaticas For the
ceremony of the investiture as Cardinal
he was presented with the cape of red
Sicily silk, all in one piece, including a
train fifteen feet long. 1t was trimmed
with ermine, and was reported to have
cost $4,000. He wears underneath this
red cassock, rocket of yellow lace to the
knee, and silk tunic, varying in color
according to the festival on which it is
worn, One of his broad-brimmed hats is
of red cloth, and the other of red silk.
These, with the beretta, the skull cap of
chamois leather, the gloves, and the slip
pers, are items of minor expense. The
hats may be rated at IS each.
Vestments of the clergy at large vary
greatly, according to the wealth OF
churches, and are often donated by par
ishioners. Those of a village priest cost
inside of $50, and those of an archbishop
or bishop often reaches 81, 200. Each OF
the latter functionaries has two miters,
costing from $l1 to 500, the second
inter being about half the value OF the
first. The names of Catholic vestments
are but little known, even by Catholics,
and few people at mass can give an in
quirer information respecting them.
Each religion, at its formation, like each
new government, borrows greatly from
the theories and forms preceding it.
Catholic vestments greatly resemble
those of the pagan priests of ancient
Rome, and have varied very little in
form and general aspect since their orig
inal adoption. A number 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 contem
plated through a roll of fifteen centuries
in their aspect of to-day.
Most striking. perhaps, to the eye
among the mass garments OF priests, IL
the oblong cape with large fringe cros
upon it, which hangs at the back. Thi:
is the chasuble. The cost Of chasuble'
varies from 81 to 1915, according to ma
terial and embroidery. The latter are o.
the choicest silk, satin, or velvet anc
heavy with gold embroidery. Accom-
panying the chasuble, included in it,
cost, and in keeping with its richness, il
the maniple, which hangs on the arm
the stole hanging from the neck; thu
chalice veil, or cloth which covers thu
chalice or wine cup, at times during tn
taking of the sacrament; the pail, als'
placed at times on the chalice, and tn
square burse, which is alternately lai'
upon the chalice and upon the altar
The cope or robe, which Uses stif1y to
point behind the head, ranges in prie
from $1l to $3.50; the dalmaticas, whic
form double cape, hanging both at tn
front and back, run from SIS to $46(
and include in their cost a stole and tw
maniples. The alb or white lace carmen
which covers the soutane or black rob
to the feet costs from 81 to $50
the latter being of rich Brussels lace
surplices are of white Swiss lace at $6
Brussels at $50. nottingham and Frenc
laces are at intermediate figures. B'ne
diction wells are from $6 to 800, preacl
ing stoles $5 to $75, and confession stol'
from 81 to 81. The cost Of the vestmen
, worn by the generality of priests is
medium between the above extreme
+ Canopies held over the principal eel
brant during professions vary from s.
: to 1925; ante pedlums, held at times b
: fore the altar, $15 to $40; umbrellino
3 held during professions, $50 to $40; ar
pals for coffins, $50 to $35. Berett
and other minor articles vary from 81
! SIS.
The colors worn at Lenten cerem0ni
> > are purple and black; at the Feast
r Martyrs, red; the Sunday after Trini
and Sunday before Advent, green; du
ing Advent, purple; and at all 9th
v times white and gold. Altar boys we
! cassocks Of the same colors as the Of
d ciating priests, having over them whi
!. surplices. Acolytes, who carry candl
t at the head Of professions, the same.
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