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What is a chrisom?

What is a chrisom? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (obsolete) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
  2. (obsolete) A child that died within a month after its baptism; so called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for it.
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The unbinding of the Chrisom took place with great ceremony eight days later at the royal estate at Wedmore.
The chrisom was the linen cloth, or garment, which the priest put on the recently baptized child.
This white vesture was worn for a month after the child's birth, and if it died before the expiration of that time, it had the chrisom for its shroud.
It is said to depict a chrisom child, i.e., a chrisom is a child's white robe worn at baptism, used as a shroud if the infant dies within a month.
Elizabeth was placed in his household and carried the chrisom, or baptismal cloth, at his christening.
Though not required by the Protestant prayer book, chrisom cloths were still standard equipment, at least in the Elizabethan period.

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