Sacrificial altar

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High altar with sacrificial portals. Parish church Heiliger Egyd in Tigring , Moosburg , Carinthia

As a sacrifice altar is a special form of the altar in the Catholic Church buildings referred to a sacrifice allows the altar.

description

In some baroque churches of a sacrificial altar there are doors to the right and left of the high altar , the “sacrificial portals” through which the believers could walk around the altar during a “sacrificial walk”. On the back is a second altar with its own tabernacle and cafeteria , for example in the Zwiefalten pilgrimage church and in the St. Anna pilgrimage church in Haigerloch . It was also possible to donate for two purposes, and there was one offering plate on the epistle side and the other on the gospel side .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Albrecht Oehler: Synagogue or Fides? To Johann Georg Weckenmann's Haigerloch altar figures . In: Zeitschrift für Hohenzollerische Geschichte 30/31 (117) 1994/95, p. 199, digitized
  2. ^ Josef Andreas Jungmann : Missarum Sollemnia . A genetic explanation of the Roman mass. 5th edition. tape 2 . Herder Verlag, Vienna - Freiburg - Basel 1962, p. 26 .