Published: 2000-06-30

The Idea of Sancta Sanctorum and the Ark of the Covenant Accompanying the Storage of the Eucharist in Early Medieval Temples

Janusz Nowiński
Seminare. Learned Investigations
Section: History
https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2000.33

Abstract

The idea of ​​the Sancta Sanctorum and the Ark of the Covenant - alongside the idea of ​​Novum Sepuicmm Iesu Christi - accompanied the preservation of the Eucharist in early medieval churches. In accordance with the disposition of the interior of the Sancta Sanctorum, the room of the Sanctuaries designed in the Moarabian and Iro-Scottish liturgy. A parable with The architectural proportions of the church corresponded to the biblical pattern of the sanctuary. The last - like Sancta Sanctorum - adopts the square plan a. Likewise the furnishing of the church, through the separation of the sanctuary from the The nave and the presence of the Ark of the Covenant on the altar took the pattern from the interior Sancta Sanctorum. The device that works in the sanctuary of the early medieval Churches as the Ark of the Covenant, we have recognized Iro-Scottish chrismale. chrismas, known as so-called Bursen reliquaries, originally used to store the Eucharist.

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Nowiński, J. (2000). The Idea of Sancta Sanctorum and the Ark of the Covenant Accompanying the Storage of the Eucharist in Early Medieval Temples. Seminare. Learned Investigations, 16, 537–548. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2000.33

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