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PREDELLA
The floor of a platform on which an altar is placed. It sometimes refers to the upper steplike shelf on the back of the altar. (Etym. Italian predella, altar step, footboard.)
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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