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Thanks, Paul. Kessler's article is fascinating.
Apropos the flabellum in Paderborn, I should clarify that "still" in my earlier phrasing "still used" referred only to Paul's making it sound as though flabella have gone completely out of use, even processionally. The use of one by the diocese of Paderborn is not only not medieval but indeed apparently very modern, starting only in the early twentieth century (though the association of a peacock with the translation of St. Liborius from Le Mans is at least several centuries older). See the illustrated German-language account here:
http://www.dhm.de/gaeste/koerber/2002/pfau/arbeit/liborius.html
Best again,
John Dillon
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> The Carmelite Rite, based on the 12th-c. Latin Rite of the Holy Sepulchre (not generally in use since 1971) used flabella. The Ordinale of 1312 also prescribed that in summer the deacon use a flabellum to keep insects from the priest and offerings, but this seems to imply a smaller and more practical flabellum than the large ceremonial ones:
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> Tempore etiam muscarum post inceptionem secretarum debet diaconus tenere flabellum quo cohibeat eas honeste a molestando sacerdotem, et abigat a sacrificio. (rub. xli)
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> I have heard talk of large feathered flabella surviving in some Carmelite churches but can't recall seeing an extant example. A film of Solemn Mass in this rite, celebrated by the then prior general Kilian Lynch, at Aylesford Priory in Kent in 1960 is on youtube if anyone is interested in such things (first part here: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTkSXW3O7HI>). However, it does not feature falbella or fly-swatting by the deacon.
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> Herbert Kessler has recently written at length on the Carolingian flabellum of Tournus: <http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/lantbyz/files/2011/09/Kessler-Images-Borne-on-a-Breeze.pdf> -- Paul
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> On 25 November 2011 09:01, John Dillon <[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> > > ... the instrument here is a flabellum or riphidion, known from at least the 4th century and originally a fan used to keep insects from the eucharistic elements.
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> > A small point: the Greek term is spelled 'rhipidion' (it's a development from Gk. _rhipis_, _rhipidos_, 'bellows' or 'fan')
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> > The Diocese of Paderborn has a very nice peacock-feather one still used in connection with its cult of St. Liborius. Here it is, in a photograph from this past July, fixed upright behind Liborius' reliquary casket (the _Liborischrein_):
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