Sudarium

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Sudarium is a Latin word, literally meaning 'sweat cloth', used for wiping clean.

In Christian liturgy, the term has been used as a synonym for several textile objects:

  • the original Maniple, a cloth of fine quality to wipe away perspiration, or an ornamental handkerchief which was seldom put into actual use, but was generally carried in the hand as an ornament as was commonly done by people of rank in ordinary life.
  • the humeral veil, still depicted in ecclesiastical heraldry with the Crosier
  • The subdeacon's original counterpart used to hold the paten with: a pall(a) or mappula, palla, the forerunner of the chalice veil, the ends of which he threw over his right shoulder.

It specifically refers to two controversial, possibly false relics of the Passion of Jesus Christ:

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