Portable Altar of Countess Gertrude
Crispin Paine
A portable altar is a wooden or stone tablet, cloth, on which Mass celebrated. It required in most of the older Christian traditions (the Catholic, Orthodox, and some Oriental Orthodox other Eastern churches) when no permanent available. The seems to have developed missionary world seventh century, meet Church's requirement that be celebrated only consecrated altar—a strengthened position bishops, who alone could consecrate them.
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