Shrine Clerk, Or Shrine Keeper

Shrine Clerk, Or Shrine Keeper

is the official in a church who receives the voluntary oblations of the faithful. At the great and most noted shrines of saints the shrine clerk sat at a table near, or sometimes at, a tomb, the slab of which served as such, to accept the donations of the pilgrims.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature