Altar-Bread Box
Altar-Bread Box
a box to hold the wafers, or altar-breads, before consecration. Such receptacles were anciently of boxwood or ivory. The example given in the illustration is of ivory mounted in silver.
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a box to hold the wafers, or altar-breads, before consecration. Such receptacles were anciently of boxwood or ivory. The example given in the illustration is of ivory mounted in silver.