Although it is impossible that all these vessels were designed for sacramental purposes, yet it is not improbable that some of them were used as patens and chalices in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist.
Some of the gilt glasses, before described, are thought to have been used as patens and chalices for the celebration of the eucharist.
The Liber Pontificalis states that glass patens were in use in the third century.
St. Patrick's arrival, and being a skilful artisan in metal work, he made chalices and patensfor the use of the new churches founded by St. Patrick.
Hence of all the vast store of church plate which our churches possessed before the Reformation, at the present time throughout all England only thirty-four chalices and seventy-three patens remain.
There are others of these so-called chalices and patens of which the original use is very problematical.
In all countries the chalices and patens were usually, designed to correspond with each other.
The button bases of the patensbear the donor's crest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
