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THE ARMENIAN CHURCH TO-DAY
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celebrates. In choir he has another cloak, the mandyas (called pilon).[1] A pectoral cross is often granted to simple priests and

FIG. 17. — THE ARMENIAN CHURCH OF ST. JAMES AT JERUSALEM.

vardapets. The bishop adds to a priest's vestments a large omophorion (emiphoron). Since the Latinizing days of Cilician

  1. ↑ Urar is ὠράριον and pilon is φαιλόνιον (see p. 273, n. 3, for this spelling).
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