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Limoges enamel dove, Walters Art Museum

A peristerium, or Eucharistic dove in the Western church, is a metallic vessel, in the shape of a dove (pigeon), which can be hung over an altar, most often in Eastern Christian churches.[1]

  1. ^ Mackenzie Walcott (1968). Sacred archæology: a popular dictionary of ecclesiastical art and institutions. p. 158.

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