[102] Violet or purple στοιχάρια are worn throughout Lent, except on Annunciation Day, Palm Sunday, and Easter Eve.
[103] Translation from King's 'Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church in Russia.'
APPENDIX I.
COSTUMES OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS.
The following appendix does not profess to furnish more than an outline of the extensive subject with which it deals; for further details, as well as for illustrations of members of each of the orders, reference must be made to the great work of Bonanni, cited in Appendix III. Bonanni names the different habits rather loosely; in the main his nomenclature has been followed, but brought to a more uniform system.
Monks.
The dress of monks usually consists of the vestis, tunic or closed gown; the scapular, roughly speaking, a narrow, chasuble-like dress, with the front and back portions rectangular and of uniform width throughout; one or more open gowns (pallium or cappa); and the caputium or hood, fastened at the back and capable of being drawn over the head. 'Discalced' is not always to be taken in its fullest significance, or as signifying more than simply 'sandaled.' Different vestments are worn by individual orders or houses; the nature of these will be self-evident from their names.
1. Alexians.—Black vestis and pallium, both reaching a little below the knee: caputium.