Capitilavium

Capitilavium

(Hand-washing) is a name for Palm Sunday in France and Spain, because the heads of the Competentes, who were to receive chrism after baptism, "were then washed. - In 813 the practice was abolished by the Council of Mayence. At Milan the feet of the candidates were washed. SEE ABLUTION OF THE HEAD.

 
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