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350:. The gloves were generally made of silk thread or woven fabric, rarely of woollen thread, sometimes of linen woven material. Up to the end of the Middle Ages the usual colour was white, although the gloves at New College, Oxford, are red; apparently it was not until the sixteenth century that the ordinances as to liturgical colours were applied to episcopal gloves. Even in the Middle Ages the occasions on which the gloves were worn were not many, but their use was not so limited as later, for in the earlier period they were occasionally worn at the pontifical Mass after Communion, at solemn offices and during processions. 274:
eventually to Rome. The chief reason for the introduction of the usage was probably the desire to provide a suitable adornment for the hands of the bishop, rather than practical considerations such as the preservation of the cleanliness of the hands or something as such. Episcopal gloves appertained originally to bishops, but at an early date their use was also granted to other ecclesiastics, thus no later than 1070 the abbot of the
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The use of episcopal gloves became customary in Rome probably in the tenth century, outside of Rome they were employed somewhat earlier. Apparently they were first used in France, as the earliest traces of the custom are found in this country, from where it gradually spread to other parts and
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these gloves were either knitted or otherwise produced with the needle, or else they were made of woven material sewed together; the former way seems to have been the more usual. Gloves made by both methods are still in existence, as for example, in Saint-Sernin at
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As of 1909, Episcopal gloves are knitted by machine or hand-woven from silk thread. They are normally ornamented on the back with a cross; the border of the opening for the hand is also, as a rule, embellished. The colour of the gloves must correspond with the
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of the feast or day in the services of which they are worn; episcopal gloves, however, are never black, as they are not used on
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and other places. In the later Middle Ages it became customary to enlarge the lower end, giving it the appearance of a cuff or
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of a bishop, the consecrator, aided by the assisting bishops, put the gloves on the new bishop just after the blessing.
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The gloves are considered symbolic of purity, the performance of good works and carefulness in procedure.
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etc., the disk being sewn on to the glove, or, at times, the ornamentation was of
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Gloves worn by a Roman Catholic bishop when celebrating Solemn Pontifical Mass
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received this privilege, the first certain instance of such permission.
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bishops also sometimes make use of the Episcopal gloves.
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