Purificatory
The purificator ( lat. : Purificare "clean"), even chalice cloth or Kelchtüchlein is a kerchief of white linen, which in the Holy Mass to wipe the chalice rim in the chalice , to clean the ciboria and to dry the chalice in the purification used becomes. It has a length of 40 to 50 cm, a width of 25 to 30 cm and is folded in three ways. In the past it was usually embroidered with a cross in the middle and sometimes lined with a narrow point on the narrow sides . The Purificatory is brought to the altar with the chalice for the preparation of the gifts and lies there next to the corporal .
The first water when washing the purifiers is given into the sacrarium . Purificatories have been detectable since the early Middle Ages. They were also called abstersorium or stersorium (from the Latin tergere "to dry off").
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. 212-213.