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Liturgical fan in Eastern Christianity

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traditions are distinctive, having little hoops of metal or bells all around the circumference of the disks, symbolizing the hymns of the angels to God. At particularly solemn points of the liturgy, these are shaken gently to produce a tinkling and jingling sound, akin to the sound of multiple
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Upon ordination, a deacon is vested with a certain protocol for each vestment, and then with the same protocol is given a fan and "places himself by the Holy Table, and fans the Holy Things."
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In the Eastern Churches, liturgical fans have been used from the first centuries to the present day. A fan is generally made of metal, round, having the
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and is set on the end of a pole. Fans of carved, gilded, or painted wood are also found. Fans are usually made in pairs.
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tradition they are often also used to honour a particularly sacred
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Fans are carried by the altar servers at all processions with
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Index

Liturgical Fan (Orthodox Church)
Western Christianity
flabellum
Eastern Christian
worship

Eastern Christian
Pskov
iconographic
seraphim

adding to it
Eucharistic
Gospel Book
Russian
icon
relic
Holy Table
altar
Christ
Theotokos

Maronite
Oriental
altar bells
Orthodox Church
Non-Chalcedonian
Oriental Orthodox Churches
Assyrian Church
Eastern Catholic Churches

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