The oldest paten in existence is that found at Chichester Cathedral in a coffin, and its date is about the year 1180.
The oldest piece of church plate still in use is a remarkable paten at Wyke Church, near Winchester, the date of which is about 1280.
Above it in the niche was the credence, a shelf of stone, on which were placed the chalice and paten and all things necessary for the celebration.
Another favourite inscription was Benedicamus patrem et filium cum spiritu sancto; but on the paten in the church of Great Waltham, Essex, the important word spiritu is omitted for want of room.
About 1350 the custom arose of laying the chalice on its side on the paten to drain at the ablutions at Mass; and as the round-footed chalices would have a tendency to roll, the foot was made hexagonal for stability.
The chalice and the patenwere the vessels used at the Sacrament, the former being the wine cup, which was of silver, and the latter the bread dish, partly gilt.
Footnote 111: Here the archbishop took the pateninto his hands.
Did Steadfast see only the burnished gold of the Chalice and paten he had guarded for seventeen years at the cost of toil, danger, suffering, love, and life itself?
Here are preserved some fragments of ancient vestments, a paten of Bishop Blois', some good bindings and other treasures.
Paten Cover of Needle-Point Raised, or Rose-Point Lace, very similar in style and gracefulness to that of No.
Then he uttered a cry of dismay, for they had no other paten with them in the vessel.
A patenof milky-white semi-transparent glass with shaped margin (9 in.
A smaller pan-like paten or hanging lamp similar to the above (10 in.
The fair linen cloth, or veil, should be large enough to cover thoroughly the whole of both chalice and paten, when the paten is placed in front of the chalice.
Here the Priest is to take the Paten into his hands: 120.
And by the grave-side stood the paten and the chalice, emptied of their divine contents.
In her hand she bare a paten of silver and upon the paten was a napkin, and on the napkin there was a wonderful ring of gold set with a clear blue stone.
Large paten at the right given by Sir Edmund Andros, Governor, 1694.
This communion chalice and paten are owned today by one of the oldest parishes in Virginia, and are in St. John's Church, of Elizabeth City Parish, at Hampton.
This sally told; for Paten became lividly pale, and he shook from head to foot with passion.
But even these difficulties were less than the embarrassment of not knowing how her meeting with Paten had been conducted, and to what results it had led.
With a shuffling but hurried step he then moved across the floor, and, coming close up to where Paten stood, he laid his hands upon his shoulders, and wheeled him rudely round, till the light of the window fell full upon him.
Two were banged; Paten and another, named Collier, acquitted.
Paten threw his cigar angrily from him, and sat brooding and moody; for some time nothing was heard between them save the clink of the decanter as they filled their glasses, and passed the wine.
Paten shook his head dissentingly; he was very far from feeling the combat an equal one.
A faint streak of moonlight had now just fallen upon the spot, and he saw it was Ludlow Paten who lay there.
When Patenhad got thus far, he walked away from his friend, and, leaning his arm on the bulwark, seemed overwhelmed with the dreary retrospect.
Afterwards it was decided that "the Lord's chalice with the paten should be made entirely of gold, or of silver or at least of tin.
The patenwas generally composed of the same material as the chalice itself.
When properly made, the lower part of the Paten will fit into or over the edge of the chalice.
These sacred vessels are the Chalice, Paten and Flagon, which should be made of silver or gold only--the best that we have for so sacred a purpose.
The pewter cup I had borrowed at Wolgast, and bought there a little earthenware plate for a paten till such time as Master Bloom should have made ready the silver cup and paten I had bespoke.
The chalice, though somewhat imperfect round the lip, is otherwise entire, but the paten is greatly injured, and both are little more than rude symbols of these most essential sacred vessels used in the service of the mass.
As you see, there is another chalice and two patens in the safe, one paten of gold, but it was not taken, not even touched, I fancy.
The chalice was stolen for the sake of the jewels, that is evident, or the thief would have taken the gold paten as well; and the jewels have a romance attached to them.
He said the Agnus Dei aloud, softly recited the three prescribed prayers, and made his act of unworthiness, and then with his elbows resting on the altar, and with the paten beneath his chin, he partook of both portions of the host at once.
For a moment he held before his breast the paten containing the host, which he offered up to God, for himself, for those present, and for all the faithful, living and dead.
After a fervent meditation, with his hands clasped before his face, he took the paten and gathered from the corporal the sacred particles of the host that had fallen, and dropped them into the chalice.
These portions placed on the paten are covered with a veil, and in order to prevent the latter from touching the elements a piece of metal is placed over them: two strips crossed, and bent so as to have four feet.
The paten itself is often elaborately enamelled and otherwise decorated, whereas in the western church the rubrics require it to be plain.
The Paten is enriched with a golden medallion on the rim, in the form of a vesica, which shows the Agnus Dei, executed in colored enamel.
The Paten and Chalice just presented were used in the consecration and administration of the sacred elements.
Among the sacred vessels used in the service were the Paten and Chalice used by Bishop Seabury in St. James's Church, New London.
Nichols presented to the Bishop of Aberdeen the memorial Paten and Chalice, the latter bearing this inscription: [Footnote: The Chalice stands eleven inches high, and is of massive silver.
The Committee determined that the memorial should take the form of a Paten and Chalice, and subscriptions for the same in small amounts were solicited and received from clergymen and lay persons throughout the Diocese.
This figure held a censer in one hand, and in the other a chalice covered with a paten on which there was a loaf; and this image of Melchizedec, the King of Salem, threw Durtal into a deep reverie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
