Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 441
or their practicalministry they needed the orariiwi no less thanthe deacons of other churches, and they actuallycarried it, according to a disposition which mayhave been purely accidental, not upon the shoul-der, but upon the forearm. The Liber Pontiji-ccdis recounts that Sylvester (314-335)… … Fig. 1S2. STOLE AND MAXIPLE 413 order is ascribed to Zosimus (417-418). Whatever bishop mayhave fixed this custom, whatever negligence on the part of thedeacons may have occasioned such an order, or whatever mayhave been the reason for the designation of this particularmode, the fact of importance…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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