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Monuments of the early church (1901)

Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 434

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pallium partlysuperseded the toga even in Eome itself. On the other hand,the still greater convenience of the dalmatic and the paenulaaccounts for the subsequent disappearance of both toga and THE PALLIUM 405 pallium, or rather their transformation into mere ornamentsand insignia. The pallium, like… … S. Maurus, bishop, in white tunic and dalmatic, dark psenula, and sacred pallium ; S. Sep-timus, deacon, in white tunic and dalmatic, again two soldiers, or courtiers. Baptistery. Middle of the seventh century. was merely a rectangular piece of cloth, three times as long asbroad, and it was wrapped…

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