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noun - a recess in a church wall for sacred vessels
AMBRIES - An ambry (or almery, aumbry; from the medieval form almarium, cf. Lat. armrium, "a place for keeping tools"; cf. O. Fr. aumoire and mod. armoire) is ...
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| Plural form of ambry. |
| A small recess or cupboard in the wall of a church. |
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An ambry (or almery, aumbry; from the medieval form almarium, cf. Lat. armrium, "a place for keeping tools"; cf. O. Fr. aumoire and mod. armoire) is a recessed cabinet in the wall of a Christian church for storing sacred vessels and vestments. They are sometimes near the piscina, but more often on the opposite side. The word also seems in medieval times to be used commonly for any closed cupboard and even bookcase.Items kept in an ambry include chalices and other vessels, as well as items for the reserved sacrament, the consecrated elements from the Eucharist. This latter use was infrequent in pre-Reformation churches, although it was known in Scotland, Sweden, Germany and Italy. More usually the sacrament was reserved in a pyx, usually hanging in front of and above the altar or later in a "sacrament house". * After the Reformation and the Tridentine reforms, in the Roman Catholic Church the sacrament was no longer reserved in ambries; some ambries were used to house the oil for the Anoi |