Meanings of ciborium in English

When Sister Julie opened the tabernacle she found the ciborium pierced with bullet holes.

Oh, a memorial ciborium for Chloe's mother, encrusted with garnets.

A nice ciborium by the door and a quaint wooden block remain in my memory.

The Germans had fired shots around the lock in order to get possession of the ciborium.

He replaced the lid of the ciborium to keep the dust from mingling with the Wafers.

And all passed away, as the Cardinal bent above the grating, with the ciborium in his hand.

The ciborium had come to him.

And while he descended the steps and communicated two women, Durtal trembled, and his desires went forth towards the ciborium.

What is the ciborium?

The boy held the coin in both hands before him like a small ciborium and he looked up at the judge.

His hands were trembling, and his soul trembled as he heard the priest pass with the ciborium from communicant to communicant.

The churchwarden was taking all the time in the world to pour the wine into the piscina and place the wafers in the ciborium.

At Rome he carved a tabernacle for S. Maria in Trastevere, and at Volterra a ciborium for the Baptistery-oneof his most sympathetic productions.

Turning to the people and holding the ciborium in his left hand, he lifts up a Sacred Host to the people in his right hand.

It was first intended to place this chest, in the form of a ciborium, above the high altar, and to sustain it on four columns.

The origin of the ciborium is not certain, but it is represented in a mosaic at Thessalonica of a date not later than A.D. 500.