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A ciborium (plural ciboria; Medieval Latin ciborium "drinking cup", from the Ancient Greek κιβώριον kibōrion, "drinking cup") is a vessel, normally in

structure in Saint Peter's, Rome is always called the baldachin. Early ciboria had curtains hanging from rods between the columns, so that the altar could

in a clear glass vessel placed close to the tabernacle. Normally, only ciboria and Blessed Sacrament are placed in the tabernacle, although it is not

tuft provides the most common entrance for fungal spores during storage. Ciboria, the most diffuse, turns the flesh black and spongy. Other fungi are known

more fine china. The series on Early-Christian ivory art (diptychs and ciborias), decorated with sacred and profane motives (5th century B.C.). The marble

container for consecrated hosts. By this period a rule of the church normally forbade the use of vessels decorated on their inner surface as ciboria.

and his corpse burnt at the Ponte Sant'Angelo, convicted of stealing two ciboria; his head was, then, taken to the Arch of the Holy Spirit (February 27