: The way in which they secure the passing round of the watchword for the night is as follows: from the tenth maniple of each class of infantry and cavalry, the maniple which is encamped at the lower end of the street, a man is chosen who is relieved from guard duty, and he attends every day at sunset at the tent of the tribune, and receiving from him the watchword — that is a wooden tablet with the word inscribed on it – takes his leave, and on returning to his quarters passes on the watchword and tablet before witnesses to the commander of the next maniple, who in turn passes it to the one next him.

A feature unique to Carthusian liturgical practice is that the bishop bestows on Carthusian nuns, in the ceremony of their profession, a stole and a maniple.

At Matins, if no priest is present, a nun assumes the stole and reads the Gospel, and although the chanting of the Epistle was, in the time of the Tridentine Mass, reserved to an ordained subdeacon, a consecrated nun sang the Epistle at the conventual Mass, though without wearing the maniple.

The maniple fell out of common use with the 1970 post conciliar liturgical reform, but is gaining in popularity in many circles and is used today in the context of the Tridentine Mass, in which it is required by rubrics, and in some Anglo-Catholic and other parishes.

A Low Mass celebrated by a bishop is almost identical with one celebrated by a priest, except that the bishop puts on the maniple only after the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, uses the greeting " Peace be with you " rather than the priest or deacon's " The Lord be with you ", and makes the sign of the cross three times at the final blessing, which may be preceded by a formula that begins with " Adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini " ( Our help is in the name of the Lord ).

The maniple is a liturgical vestment used primarily within the Catholic Church, and occasionally used by some Anglo-Catholic and Lutheran clergy.

" The maniple is no longer required ".

" The maniple is an article of liturgical dress used in the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Holy Mass of the Roman Rite.

The rationale was that the maniple had not been suppressed, but simply that it was no longer required.

The body wore ecclesiatical vestments common for Boniface's lifetime: long stockings covered legs and thighs, and it was garbed also with the maniple, soutain, and pontifical habit made of black silk, as well as stole, chasuble, rings, and bejeweled gloves.

When used, the maniple is worn by a priest only when vested in a chasuble for celebrating Mass.

The 1960 Code of Rubrics, incorporated into the 1962 Roman Missal, states that the maniple is never worn with the cope ( as, for instance, in the Asperges ceremony or in giving Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament ); and, if no cope is available, it allows the priest to give such blessings vested in an alb and wearing a stole, but without chasuble and maniple.

St Alphonsius Ligouri claims: “ It is well known that the maniple for the purpose of wiping away the tears that flowed from the eyes of the priest ; for in former times priests wept continually during the celebration of Mass .”

He wore a maniple, until this vestment was made optional by Pope Paul VI with the instruction Tres annos abhinc.

; Subcinctorium: A vestment similar to a broad maniple but worn suspended from the right side of the cincture, decorated with a cross on one end and an agnus dei on the other ; worn only by the Pope during a Pontifical High Mass.

A maniple embroidered with a cross, as worn with a chasuble

The maniple is worn also, with the dalmatic or tunicle, by the deacon and the subdeacon in a Solemn Mass.

In the unreformed Papal Mass the Pope wears a special maniple intertwined with red and gold threads, symbolizing the unity of the Eastern and Western rites of the Catholic Church.

Roman soldiers in a maniple had a 3 ft by 3 ft " fighting square " around them, giving soldiers ample space to fight with their swords.

The maniples in each line generally formed with a one-maniple space between each maniple and its neighbours, and the maniples in each of the forward lines covering the gaps in the line behind, so that retreating troops of the forward lines could withdraw without disrupting those behind them.

The Pope wore a special maniple intertwined with red and gold threads, symbolizing the unity of the Eastern and Western rites of the Catholic Church.

* A special maniple, much the same in form as maniples formerly worn by priests, but with intertwined red and gold threads to symbolize the union of the Eastern and Western Churches.

What is now referred to as choir dress in Anglicanism was the only vesture permitted to the clergy in the 1552 Prayer Book ; the Elizabethan Prayer Book of 1559 added the so-called Ornaments Rubric, which in theory permitted the pre-Reformation eucharistic vestments ( chasuble, dalmatic, tunicle, alb, amice, and maniple ) along with the cope, that had been in use during the reign of Edward VI.

The Liber Pontificalis attributes to Zosimus a decree on the wearing of the maniple by deacons and on the dedication of Easter candles in the country parishes ; also a decree forbidding clerics to visit taverns.

A maniple consisted of two centuries and was commanded by the senior of the two centurions.

Use of the maniple was made optional, and at three ceremonies at which the cope was previously the obligatory vestment the chasuble could be used instead.

During services, the subdeacon vests in an alb, over which he wears the maniple, the cincture, and the tunicle.

Violet Latin stole and Maniple ( vestment ) | maniple.

In its 1967 instruction, Tres Abhinc Annos, the Roman Catholic Church's Sacred Congregation of Rites effectively removed the obligation to use the maniple during the liturgy.

Some claim that the use of the maniple in the Roman Rite ( even in the liturgy as revised under Pope Paul VI ) has never been formally abolished or suppressed by the Catholic Church.

Arguing against this view is the fact that after the SCR's Instruction the maniple — even as an optional vestment — was completely omitted from subsequent editions of the Catholic Church's Roman Missal, the book used by priests to celebrate Mass.

" Another reader asked about some vestments no longer in use: I noticed one who had offered the new rite but wore the maniple.

I do not think that the rationale justifying the use of the maniple.

A bishop celebrating a ( Tridentine ) Low Mass assumes the maniple only after the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.

He is still concerned, however, with a personal event.

nearby, another sits motionless, while still another is twirling an umbrella.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

There is still the remote possibility of planetoid collision.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

Each is still glorified as a national hero.

This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''

Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

There is another side of love, more nearly symbolized by the croak of the mating capercailzie, or better still perhaps by the mute antics of the slug.

But still, the proposition is worth examination.

The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

The image of man which enters into force with Aeschylus is still vital in Phedre and Athalie.