Sentence:  A marble "bénitier," vessel for holy water, is surrounded with what Alvarez has denominated a recurrent, or <WSD>Cancrine</WSD> verse, which forms the same words beginning at each end: ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Palindromic; reading the same forwards or backwards.