is dismissed with "ite in pace". Dom Martene gives other instances of the use of "pax". In Christian epigraphy, there are a variety of formulae: "pax"; "in pace"; "pax tecum"; "vivas in pace"; "requiescat in pace"; "pax Christi tecum sit"; "anima dulcissima requiescas in pace"; "dormit in pace"; and "in locum refrigerii, lucis et pacis" (from the formula of the Mass at the Memento of the Dead). See also As-salamu alaykum Holy kiss Pax (liturgical object) References Bibliography Peter Damian, an opusculum on Dominus Vobiscum in Patrologia Latina CXLV, 234; Zaccaria, Onomasticon, s. vv. Pax vobis and Salutatio episcopalis; Bona Rerum liturg., III, 12, 88 sqq.; Smith, Dict. of Christ. Antiq., s.v. Pax (cf. Dominus vobiscum); De dignitate sacerdotali (not written by St. Ambrose, as was long believed, but by Gerbert), v, in P.L.., XVII, 598 and CXXXIX, 175, contains an important text on this subject; Rocca De salutatione sacerdotis in missa et divinis officiis in Thesaurus antiquitat., I (Rome, 1745), 236; Edmond Martene, De antiquis ecclesiae ritibus, I, 151 sqq.; Mamachi, Origines et antiq. christ., IV, 479; III, 17, 19; Ephemerides liturg. (Feb., 1910), 108; Probst, Die abendlandische Messe, 104, 404, 437; see Dominus Vobiscum, V, 114; Cabrol in Dict. d'archeol. chret., s.v. Acclamations. For the formula Pax and other formulas in funeral epigraphy: Kirsch, Die Acclamationen u. Gebete der altchristl. Grabschriften (Cologne, 1897); , Les acclamations des epitaphes chret. de l'antiquite et les prieres liturg. pour les defunts in IV Congres scientifique des Catholiques (Fribourg, 1898), 113–22; Syxto, Notiones archaeol. christ., II, Epigraphia, 94 sqq.; Cabrol, La priere pour les morts in Revue d'apologetique (15 Sept., 1909); , Livre de la priere antique, 67, 69. Latin religious words and phrases Religion and peace Catholic liturgy Order of Mass