sacristan
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- noun
- /ˈsækrɪstən/
- Specialized
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sacristán
- Following the religious ceremony, the priest or sacristan fills out small forms with the basic information (that is, names of parents, godparents, godchild, date, name of priest).
- served as a sacristan
Examples
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The sacristan prepared the altar before the morning service, ensuring everything was in place.
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Others serve as readers, altar servers, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, cantors, musicians, and sacristans.
Blog text (4) -
As a child, I served as sacristan to my father.
Fiction book (1997) -
That was not my own parish, and I continued to be active in it, eventually serving as the sacristan of my own parish church.
Academic text (2014) -
As chapel sacristan, Lavin had "time to talk to God," he once said.
Blog text (20) -
The sacristan rushed to get Einhard.
Academic text (2018) -
One of the sacristans, a tall, bony man with one ear, blocked her way.
Fiction book (1998) -
I want these doors locked and sealed until the Pope has proclaimed our Marie-Bernard blessed, Mother Forestier instructed the sacristan.
Fiction book (2002) -
He was just as connected to another St. Thomas landmark, the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas—as a student, he served as its sacristan, and as a priest, he celebrated Mass there almost daily.
Blog text (20) -
His great-grandfather, Aelfred Westou, was a sacristan of Durham who had traveled all over Northumbria gathering saints' relics in the eleventh century.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
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A church worker who looks after the building and rings the bell
A person who cares for the cups, special clothes, and other things used in church
A person who has an official job in a church and helps lead it
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sacristan comes from the Latin root sacr- meaning 'holy', the same root you see in sacred and sacristy. So a sacristan is literally the person who cares for the church's holy things, like the special clothes, cups and candles used in services.