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Communion Cloth
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
A long white linen cloth, extended along the altar-rail and held over it by communicants, to receive the particles of Sacred Host which may by chance fall. It is replaced in most churches by the Communion plate, or paten.
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Entry for 'Communion Cloth'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​c/communion-cloth.html. 1910.