She held him out proudly in her arms, as if he were monstrance and she priest. |
In this image, the bishop carries a monstrance under the shelter of a portable baldachin decorated with the images of various saints and martyrs. |
You are thinking of the monstrance which should have been of gold but was of silver? |
Then he bowed low to the monstrance on the altar, and lower still to the figure of the Virgin. |
The balconies of the houses that the monstrance is to pass by are also decorated, and it travels over its route under a shower of flower petals. |
The object held by the angels at the base shares the metalwork-like form of a monstrance. |