This article is about liturgical fans in Western Christianity. For fans in Eastern rites, see Liturgical fan in Eastern Christianity.
For the genus of corals, see Flabellum (genus).
"Flabella" redirects here. For the accessory bone, see fabella.
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Ancient Egyptian flabella (top center) and lotus motifs. 1868, NYPL picture collection
A flabellum (plural flabella), in Christian liturgical use, is a fan made of metal, leather, silk, parchment or feathers, intended to keep away insects from the consecrated Body and Blood of Christ and from the priest,[1] as well as to show honour. The ceremonial use of such fans dates back to Ancient Egypt, and an example was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. A flabellum is also a fan-shaped structure on the fifth legs of horseshoe crabs (Xiphosura).
^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Flabellum". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
A flabellum (plural flabella), in Christian liturgical use, is a fan made of metal, leather, silk, parchment or feathers, intended to keep away insects...
Gorgonia flabellum, also known as the Venus fan, Venus sea fan, West Indian sea fan, and purple gorgonian seafan, is a species of sea fan, a sessile colonial...
Udotea flabellum is a species of photosynthetic macroalgae. It is commonly found in shallow waters around Florida and Belize in sandy areas, sea grass...
Flabellum curvatum is a species of marine, cold water coral in the family Flabellidae. It is an azooxanthellate coral, that is to say without symbiotic...
of white ostrich feathers—a relic of the ancient liturgical use of the flabellum, mentioned in the Constitutiones Apostolicae—were carried at either side...
610 ft). "Bulbophyllum flabellum-veneris". www.asianplant.net. Retrieved 2 November 2015. Media related to Bulbophyllum flabellum-veneris at Wikimedia Commons...
Flabellum pavoninum is a species of deep sea coral belonging to the family Flabellidae. It is found in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean at depths varying...
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Zeidora flabellum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets. The length...
Flabellum angulare is a species of deep sea coral belonging to the family Flabellidae. It is found in the northern Atlantic Ocean at depths of between...
Species: P. carnea Binomial name Pinna carnea Gmelin, 1791 Synonyms Pinna degenera Link, 1807 Pinna flabellum Lamarck, 1819 Pinna pernula Röding, 1798...
Inauguration Mass High Mass Travel Vestments Camauro Falda Fanon Ferula Flabellum Mantle Mitre Mozzetta Pallium Ring of the Fisherman Shoes Slippers Sub-cinctorium...
Inauguration Mass High Mass Travel Vestments Camauro Falda Fanon Ferula Flabellum Mantle Mitre Mozzetta Pallium Ring of the Fisherman Shoes Slippers Sub-cinctorium...
scepter of Osiris, which is usually interpreted as either a flail or a flabellum, was more likely an instrument for collecting labdanum similar to that...
Inauguration Mass High Mass Travel Vestments Camauro Falda Fanon Ferula Flabellum Mantle Mitre Mozzetta Pallium Ring of the Fisherman Shoes Slippers Sub-cinctorium...
Inauguration Mass High Mass Travel Vestments Camauro Falda Fanon Ferula Flabellum Mantle Mitre Mozzetta Pallium Ring of the Fisherman Shoes Slippers Sub-cinctorium...
derajatensis A. diemenensis A. draschei A. eaglensis A. expositus A. flabellum A. frederixi A. germanus A. giganteus A. girtyi A. gradicosta A. gryphus...
Inauguration Mass High Mass Travel Vestments Camauro Falda Fanon Ferula Flabellum Mantle Mitre Mozzetta Pallium Ring of the Fisherman Shoes Slippers Sub-cinctorium...
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Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Flabellum". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
