retained. It is the same as the a25, except that the sleeves are broad and full. (6.) The catecAumem for- merly were dressed in white for one week from their baptism, and white is yet usually the dress worn by girls in their confirmation.
II. Bed is a symbol of fire and of glowing love. It was used in the dress of the Jewish priesthood. It is usually adopted largely in painting Clirist perform- ing his miracles or other labors of love, or as he is giv- ing to his disciples the mission to carry into the world the fire of his word (Luke xii, 49). On the famous standard or labarum of Constantino, the monogram of Christ rested on a purple cloth. Bede says that at his time the holy sepulchre was painted white and red. Some angek have been painted with red wings (per- haps from the word seraph — ^plenitude of love). The priestly vestments in the Romish Church are red on Whitsuntide and on days of the inart3nn. The Am- brosian rita prescribes red during the consecration of the host, and the Ambrosian and Lyonnese rites dur- ing the festival of the Circumcision. The red dress of the Tuirdinals is professedly intended to keep before them constantly the love and passion of the Saviour. The pope wears red on Good Friday. The Greek priests wear red ornaments during funeral services.
The red spoken of above is always scarlet Crim- son red is appointed for certain days i^ certain rites of the Romish Church.
III. Grem, from its analogy to the vegetable worid, indicates life and hope, especially in tiie future life and in the coming of our Lord. The perpetual youth of angels is often indicated by painting them in gar- ments of green. The saints, and espedally John the Evangelist, were often represented in green by paints ers and sculptors (who often colored their works). The tree of life in Paradise is painted green. An old tra- dition has it that a twig of the tree of life was trans- planted, and produced the tree fh)m which the cross of Christ was made ! John the Baptist and the Vir- gin Mary are often represented in mantles of green. Branches of cypress, laurel, and other evergreens are often placed in the coffins or over the graves of the dead, as emblems of the hope in a ftiture life. The Romish Church directs the priests to wear green fhmi the Epiphany to Sexagesima Sunday, and fiom the third after Easter to Advent. The Ambrosian rite or- ders the cloth that covers the host to be g^reen.
lY. Viokt is considered the color of penitence and sorrow. The Romish Church orders it to be worn dur- ing all times of penance. In painting, this color is often applied to John the Baptist, who preached re- pentance ; to the Virgin Mary, as the mother of grief; and to the angels, who are sent to call men to repent- ance.
V. Bhie is fbrbidden by the Romish Church, but it is sometimes used as the color peculiarly appropriate to the Virgin Mary.
VI. Bltick is the universal representative of sorrow, destruction, and death, and is considered only appro- priate on mourning occasions. It was also appointed in one of the later reforms of the Benedictine order of monks as the drees of that order. The students of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge thus were given the black gown, which they wear yet. This gown was adopted by the Reformed Church of England as the dress of ministers, who were all students of the universities, and thus it passed over to the Protestant Episcopal Church of America, and, f^irther, gave the color of clerical dress to all Protestant churches. — Kreuser, Bilderbuch (Paderbom, 1863); Martigny,Z>te- tumnaire det AnUquUia Chrkiemes (Paris, 1865) ; Pal- mer, AfUiquUie$ of the Engluh JHtucdf Pariser Mem- bueh (1766) ; Jamieson, Sacred and Legendary Artji, 35 sq.
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