sacrarium

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From her seat on the sacrarium, the Queen time & again interrupted her seldom-failing smile to dart anxious glances at her daughter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eventually, the Pope resolved that it should be a sacrarium, or cabinet for holy things, and that this should stand above the middle entrance door to the church.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington

It spans the whole of the choir, and is continued along the sides of the sacrarium, forming sedilia of four seats on either side.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See by Bygate, Joseph E.

Some persons go further, and cut out that part of the linen, which they burn, putting the ashes in the altar or down the sacrarium.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Alt′ar-rails, rails separating the sacrarium from the rest of the chancel.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various