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Arca

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

A box in which the Eucharist was kept by the primitive Christians in their homes; a chest for safe keeping of church money offerings, such as endowment funds for churches, schools, and various pious uses, known as the arca seminarii, missionum, piorum operum.

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Entry for 'Arca'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​a/arca.html. 1910.