Ambo (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Caryl Coleman · 1913
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Description
The ambo, plural ambos or ambones, is a Greek word taken to mean a mountain or elevation, as Innocent III understood it. Ambones likely grew from the raised platform where Jewish rabbis read Scripture to the people. They entered churches in the fourth century, were universal by the ninth, and reached full flowering and artistic beauty in the twelfth. Then they gradually fell from use.
An ambo is a raised desk or pulpit where Gospel and Epistle were sung or read and notices given to the congregation. Bishops sometimes preached from it, as John Chrysostom mounting it to be heard distinctly. The deacon ascending to read the Gospel recalled Isaiah's call to climb a high mountain bringing good tidings to Sion, and Christ preaching from a mountain.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Caryl Coleman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |