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Portable Altar
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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(portable altar) A small, flat slab of natural stone, consecrated ordinarily by a bishop, containing in a stone-covered cavity relics of two canonized martyrs, inserted in the center of the table of an altar which is not entirely consecrated. The host and chalice are placed on this stone during the Sacrifice of the Mass. The stone is portable and may be placed in any suitable altar: it really constitutes the altar.
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Entry for 'Portable Altar'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/p/portable-altar.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Portable Altar'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/p/portable-altar.html. 1910.
