Monuments of the early church . Fig. 177. — Part ofa clavus in silkembroidery, fromAchmim. Sev-enth century. CURTAINS AXD ALTAR CLOTHS 379 not of a metropolitan basilica, but of a country church. Theuse of hangings must, in fact, have been fairly well fixed asearly as the fourth century; it corresponded to the requirementsof the liturgies of that period. They became so necessary anaccessory of church worship, of the Eucharistic service espe-cially, that it is to be wondered that the Western Church wasultimately able so completely to dispense with them, and withthe elaborate divisions between d
Monuments of the early church . Fig. 177. — Part ofa clavus in silkembroidery, fromAchmim. Sev-enth century. CURTAINS AXD ALTAR CLOTHS 379 not of a metropolitan basilica, but of a country church. Theuse of hangings must, in fact, have been fairly well fixed asearly as the fourth century; it corresponded to the requirementsof the liturgies of that period. They became so necessary anaccessory of church worship, of the Eucharistic service espe-cially, that it is to be wondered that the Western Church wasultimately able so completely to dispense with them, and withthe elaborate divisions between different classes of worshipperswhich they marked. The credit of discarding all of this para-phernalia, as well as for the abbreviation and simplification of.
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