Epiphany : a theological introduction to Catholicism
by Aidan Nichols O.P.
Chapter 9: The Rites of the Church
http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/anichols/epiphany/epiphch9-3.htm
The principal object to which the eye should be directed on entering the body of a church is the (high) altar. Early Christian altars were very small affairs, but gradually they underwent an expansion. Originally, nothing was placed on the [...]
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Image courtesy of Allan Eckert.
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