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Monstrance

A monstrance, also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory), is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for ostension, e.g., the display on an altar of some object of piety, such as the consecrated EucharisticSacramental bread (host) during Eucharistic adoration or during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

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