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What is a maniple?

What is a maniple? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (rare) A handful.
  2. A division of the Roman army numbering 60 or 120 men exclusive of officers, any small body of soldiers; a company.
  3. Originally, a napkin; later, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, and sometimes worn in the English Church service.
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Others brought a cope of the colour of the day, with an amice, stole, and maniple.
The parish priests wear cassocks, birettas, and fiddleback vestments, and they know what to do with an amice, maniple, and cincture.
Worn since the 6th century by Priests and Deacons in Ravenna, the maniple was incorporated throughout Wesern Europe within 400 years.
And the deacons came in and began to unrobe him, and took from him the alb and the girdle, the maniple and the stole.
During the liturgical changes after the Council, the maniple became optional.
There stood the centurion at the head of his maniple, and raised his staff.

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