Rochett
The Rochett (from Old High German roccus "rock") is a folded and sometimes decorated white linen garment that reaches to the knees. While the Rochett, which used to be often worn under a collar in the liturgical color of the day , reached down to the neck like a collarless shirt and was held together with a button, today it often has a square neckline in which the gown is visible. The edges on the sleeves and at the bottom are partly richly embroidered or provided with lace .
A historical technical term that is rarely used today is superpelliceum , that is, a garment that was worn “over the fur”. In northern regions, warming fur clothing was necessary for choir prayer in cold churches, over which a tightly cut alb was unsuitable. The superpelliceum reached down to the feet until the 13th century. It was worn by all clerics . With the lower degrees of consecration , it was the liturgical garment for Holy Mass. This results in today's use as clothing for acolytes, who have taken on the duties of acolytes in the liturgy .
The Rochett is to be distinguished from the choir shirt . As a tight-fitting shirt, the Rochett is now only reserved for prelates , such as bishops and cardinals . In German usage, however, the altar boys' shirts are often called Rochett or Chorrock . It is sometimes worn over the gown by the pastor in Lutheran ( Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church ) services .
The sarrozium is a further development of the Rochett .
See also
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. 85-89.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph Braun: The Liturgical Paraments in the present and past. 2nd, improved edition. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1924, p. 86f.
- ↑ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13104a.htm