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206 NOTICES OF SACRED ORNAMENTS. The verses are ciirioiis ; the following reading may not be perfectly correct, — _j- FLAMINIS HOC DONUM, REGNATOR SUME POLORUM, OBLATUM PURO PECTORE SUME LIBENS. VIRGO PARENS XPI VOTO CELEBRARIS EODEM, HIC COLERIS PARITER, TU FILIBERTE SACER ^ -j- SUNT DUO QVJE MODICUM CONFER! ESTATE FLABELLUM INFESTAS ABIGIT MUSCAS ET MITIGAT ESTUM, ET SINE DAT TEDIO GUSTARE MANUS CIBORUM. FROPTEREA CALIDUM QUI VULT TRANSIRE PER ANNUM, ET TUTUS CUPIT AB ATRIS EXISTERE MUSCIS, OMNI SE STUDEAT ESTATE MUNIRI FLABELLO. _j_ HOC DECUS EXIMIUM PULCHRO MODERAMINE GESTUM, CONDECET IN SACRO SEMPER ADESSE LOCO; NAMQUE SUO VOLUCRES INFESTAS FLAMINE PELLIT, ET STRICTUM MOTUS LONGIUS IRE FACIT. This curious example was recently in the possession of an antiquary at Lyons. Other ancient Jlabella are in existence ; the Benedictines mention one at the Dominican monastery of Prouille, in the diocese of Toulouse ; another was formerly preserved at the monastery of St. Victor, near Marseilles, which had a handle of silver '. The fiahcJJuiii appears gradually to have fallen into disuse in the Latin Church : it was retained in certain churches, at Messina for instance, at Malta and Troja in Apulia : and Jlabella are still carried on certain occasions by the attendants of the Roman pontiff in solemn processions. a. w. ^ St. Philihert, founder of the abbeys of Tournus. Jiimieges and Hermoutier, died A.D. 684. ' Martene, Ant. Eccl. Rit, lib. i. c. 4. His relics were subsequently translated to Art. viii. 6.