Palla (liturgy)
A palla is a multi-layered piece of fabric, usually linen , about 12 to 18 cm square, reinforced by a sewn-in piece of cardboard, which is used in the liturgy of Holy Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and in the Evangelical Lutheran communion service. The palla covers the goblet to prevent contamination of the wine to be measured.
The palla belongs to the parament . Originally she was a corporal whose corner was used to cover the chalice. For practical reasons, a second corporal, which was folded up and placed on the goblet, was used since the 11th century at the latest. From around the 16th century, the palla had the current form, usually stiffened with cardboard, after initially starched or doubled linen was used. Pallas, which were only used on the underside of linen and on the top of silk or velvet , which was in the color of the day or embroidered, were particularly common in the Baroque period . In the 19th century there were cardboard pallets with impressed figures or ornaments. Only in the liturgy of the Carthusian Order did it remain customary to cover the chalice with the repulsed corporal.
Palla made of white embroidered linen with the symbols of Christ Alpha and Omega and a sheaf of wheat
Old Palla from Antwerp embroidered with the Christ monogram
Palla, embroidered with gold thread, depicts the scene of the Emmaus supper
literature
- Joseph Braun : The Liturgical Paraments in the Present and Past. A manual of paramentics. 2nd, improved edition. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1924 (Reprographischer Reprint. Verlag Nova and Vetera, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-936741-07-7 ), pp. 209-212.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Mayer van den Bergh : Palla from 1520; Embroidery "Maria and Joseph"
- ↑ Joseph Braun: The Liturgical Paraments in the present and past. A manual of paramentics. Reprographic reprint. Verlag Nova and Vetera, Bonn 2005, p. 210f.
- ^ Josef Andreas Jungmann : Missarum Sollemnia. A genetic explanation of the Roman mass. Second volume. 5th edition, Freiburg 1962, p. 66 note 52.
