church tabernacle
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locked box in which, in some Christian churches, the Eucharist is stored
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- church building
- Named after
- tabernacle
- Image
- Sala di Cesenatico - Tabernacolo del santuario.jpg
- Has use
- sacramental bread
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- Commons category
- Tabernacles
- different from
- tabernacle
- native label
- Tabernaculum
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- contains
- sacramental bread
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Encyclopedic overview
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The tabernacle at St Raphael's Cathedral in Dubuque, Iowa, placed on the old high altar of the cathedral (cf. General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 315, a)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “church tabernacle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.