SC - Byzantine Bread Stamps

Lurking Girl tori at panix.com
Tue Mar 14 10:59:08 PST 2000


Decker, Terry D. wrote:
> > 
> > These would have been used to impress the wafers used in 
> > church services and 
> > festivals. Such wafers although called bread are what is used 
> > in the church. 
> > 
> > Ras
> 
> While I would expect wafers due to modern usage, this does not rule out the
> possibility of small loaves of bread for use in a Medieval Communion
> service.

In fact, the church I was brought up in would, one Sunday a month, have
bits of a honey-bread for Communion instead of the icko cardboard wafers.

Vika
lapsed Lutheran


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