Mantle (vesture) facts for kids
A mantle (Greek: μανδύας, mandyas; Church Slavonic: мантия, mantiya) is an ecclesiastical garment in the form a very full cape which extends to the floor, joined at the neck, that is worn over the outer garments.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic churches, the mantle is a monastic garment worn by bishops, hegumens, archimandrites, and other monastics in processions and while attending various church services, such as Vespers or Matins; but not when vested to celebrate the Divine Liturgy. Unlike the Western cope, the mantle is worn only by monastics. The klobuk is worn over the mantle.
Images for kids
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Icon of Saint Sergius of Radonezh wearing the black monastic mantle.
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The mantle of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre contains a Jerusalem Cross, which represent the Five Holy Wounds of Christ.
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Saint Methody of Pochayiv Lavra, wearing an Archimandrite's mandyas.
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Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Greece, wearing a red mantle with gold rivers. Icons of the four evangelists are present on the "tablets," at the clasps of the garment; the icon of St. Matthew is clearly visible in this picture.
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Saint John (Maximovich) wearing an episcopal mantiya.
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