Sacrarium (sacrum, holy). A place in which sacred things are kept; the sacristy in a temple. In a private house a place used as a chapel or oratory.
Sacring Bell, Chr. A hand-bell rung at the elevation of the Host.
“Her eye was as bright as the merry sunlight,
When it shines on the dewy grass;
And her voice was as clear as a sacring bell,
That is rung at the holy mass.”
(See also Sanctus Bell.)
Sacristy, of a church, the apartment where the vestments and vessels are kept.
Sacro Catino, It. An extraordinary hexagonal glass dish preserved in the cathedral at Genoa, which was for a long time supposed to have been formed of a single emerald; and to have been either, “a gift from the Queen of Sheba to Solomon, or the dish which held the Paschal Lamb at the Last Supper,” &c. It was obtained in the Crusades in 1101, and was for many generations an object of superstitious reverence. Its principal interest now is in the evidence it bears to the early perfection of the art of making and colouring glass.
Sadda, Pers. (lit. a hundred gates). An abridgment of the Zend-Avesta or sacred books of the ancient Persians.