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CHURCHING OF See also:WOMEN , the See also:Christian ceremony of thanks-giving on the See also:part of mothers shortly after the See also:birth of their See also:children. It no doubt originated in the See also:Mosaic regulation as to See also:purification (Lev. xii. 6). In See also:ancient times the ceremony was usual but not obligatory in See also:England. In the See also:Greek and See also:Roman See also:Catholic Churches to-See also:day it is imperative. The See also:custom is first mentioned in the pseudo-Nicene Arabic canons. No ancient See also:form' of service exists, and that which figures in the See also:English See also:prayer-See also:book of to-day See also:dates only from the See also:middle ages. Custom differs, but the usual date of churching was the fortieth day after confinement, in accordance with the Biblical date of the presentment of the Virgin See also:Mary and the See also:Child Jesus at the See also:Temple. It was formerly regarded as unlucky for a woman to leave her See also:house to go out at all after confinement till she went to be churched. It was not unusual for the churching service to be said in private houses. In See also:Herefordshire it was not considered proper for the See also:husband to appear in See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at the service, or at all events in the same See also:- PEW (Mid. Eng. puwe, through O. Fr. puya, pui, mod, puy, in the sense of hill, cf. appuyer, to lean against; from Lat. podium, a high place, balcony; Gr. lrb&ov, pedestal, 'roes, foot)
pew. In some parishes there was a See also:special pew known as " the churching seat." The words in the See also:rubric requiring the woman to come " decently apparelled " refer to the times when it was thought unbecoming for a woman to come to the service with the elaborate See also:head-See also:dress then the See also:fashion. A See also:veil was usually worn, and in some parishes this was provided by the church, for an See also:inventory of goods belonging to St Benet's, Gracechurch See also:Street, in 1560, includes " A churching See also:cloth, fringed, See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:damask."
The " convenient See also:place," which, according to the rubric, the woman must occupy, was in pre-See also:Reformation times the church-See also:door. In the first prayer-book of See also:Edward VI., she was to be " nigh unto the See also:quire door." In the second of his books, she was to be " nigh unto the place where the Table standeth." See also:Bishop See also:Wren's orders for the See also:diocese of See also:Norwich in 1636 are " That women to be churched come and kneel at a See also:side near the Communion Table without the See also:rail, being veiled according to custom, and not covered with a See also:hat." In See also:Devonshire churching was sometimes called " being uprose." Churchings were formerly registered in some parishes. In pre-Reformation days it was the custom in England for women to carry lighted tapers when
being churched, in allusion to the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin (See also:February 2nd), the day chosen by the Roman Catholic church for the blessing of the candles for the whole See also:year (see See also:CANDLEMAS). At her churching a woman was expected to make some offering to the church, such as the chrisom or See also:alb thrown over the child at christening.
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