Ordination of a Bishop: The new bishop comes to the service in all his sacred vestments. At the end the ὠμοφόριον is put upon the elect, except when the consecration takes place in the see of the bishop, in which case the σάκκος and the other episcopal garments are given first. The same ceremonial is repeated as at the other ordinations.
The vestments worn at the administration of baptism are the φαινόλιον and ἐπιμανίκια.
There are three orders of devotees in the Greek monasteries. The probationers wear a black cassock or vest called shaesa, and a hood (Russian kamelauch, χαμαλαύχη). The proficients wear, in addition, an upper cloak (μάνδυας). The perfect are distinguished by their hood or vail, which perpetually conceals their faces from sight.
[95] When the abbot of a monastery was also a bishop, the prior had also the right to wear pontificalia when his superior was absent.
[96] The difficulty of folding the chasuble without injuring it has led to the substitution of a broad purple stole-like vestment, worn exactly like the folded chasuble. This is called the stolone.
[97] The Sacrament when used on a day when the Eucharist service is not gone through in its entirety.
[98] Edited by Dr Wickham Legg in 'Archaeologia,' vol. lii., p. 195.
[99] Feasts were divided into Doubles, Simples, and Sundays. Doubles were so-called from the anthems being doubled, i.e., said throughout at the beginning and end of the Psalms in the breviary office, instead of the first words only being said. The principal doubles were Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Whitsunday, Assumption, the Local Anniversary, and the Dedication of the Church.
[100] These explanations of colours are taken from Smith and Cheetham's 'Dictionary of Christian Antiquities.'
[101] Rev. C. H. Hartshorne in Arch. Journal.