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ostiary

NOUN
  1. the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
  2. someone who guards an entrance

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  • In Western Europe the office of the ostiary was the lowest grade of the minor clergy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • A uniformed ostiary ushered us into the reception area, a temple of understatement in exotic marbles and dark, gleaming woods.
  • In the Roman period all houses of the better class had an ostiarius, or ostiary, whose duties were considered very inferior. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • According to the statement, of the "Liber Pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, 155) an ostiary named Romanus suffered martyrdom in 258 at the same time as The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • All the orders except the minor order of ostiary are enumerated by the early African writers. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Later, however, in the Latin Church the office of ostiary universally remained only one of the degrees of ordination and the actual work of the ostiary was transferred to the laity, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • In the purely legendary Acts of St. Lawrence, the ostiary Romanus is transformed into a soldier, and an account in accordance with this statement was inserted in the historical martyrologies and in the present Roman Martyrology, which latter places his feast on 9 August (cf. Duchfourcq, "Les Gesta The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • An ostiary of the church of Salona is also mentioned in an epitaph (Corpus inscr. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • Sicily Pope Gelasius says that for admission into the clergy it was necessary that the candidate could read (must, therefore, have a certain amount of education), for without this prerequisite an applicant could, at the most, only fill the office of an ostiary The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • This is shown by the epitaph of one Ursatius, an ostiary of Trier (Corpus inscr. latin., The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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