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INCENSE BOAT
A sacred vessel, oblong in shape, in which incense is kept and transferred to a censer by means of a spoon.
The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1641). Camillus suffered an incurable wound in his foot, experienced the horrors of the Roman hospitals in the sixteenth century in which the nursing and other staff were drawn from the dregs of the population. He effected a great…
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