The tunicle is a liturgical vestment associated with Roman Catholicism, Anglo-Catholic, and Lutheranism. For a description of the tunicle, see dalmatic, the vestment with which it became identical in form, although earlier editions of the Caeremoniale Episcoporum indicated that it should have narrower sleeves.

Aug 7, 2018 · As they have developed, the pontifical dalmatic and tunic are essentially very thin, light vestments of silk that are easily worn the one over the other. So then, the question will naturally be asked, why is this done?

The tunic was a long, loose-fitting garment that was worn by men and women in ancient Greece and Rome. The tunicle was originally a white tunic with narrow sleeves. In the middle ages it evolved to resemble the dalmatic, with only one horizontal orphrey.

The meaning of TUNICLE is a short vestment worn by a subdeacon over the alb during mass and by a bishop under the dalmatic at pontifical ceremonies.

In the Roman Catholic Church the subdeacons wore a vestment called the tunicle, which was originally distinct from a dalmatic, but by the 17th century the two had become identical, though a tunicle was often less ornamented than a dalmatic, the main difference often being only one horizontal stripe versus the two becoming a deacon's vestment.

dalmatic, liturgical vestment worn over other vestments by Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and some Anglican deacons. It probably originated in Dalmatia (now in Croatia) and was a commonly worn outer garment in the Roman world in the 3rd century and later. Gradually, it became the distinctive garment of deacons.

In the time just before the English Reformation, there were many vestments in use: cassock (fur lined for cold churches,), amice, cincture, surplice, tippet, alb (originally an undergarment), fiddleback chasuble, stole, cope, oracle (the short cape popes wear), miter, dalmatic of the deacon, and the tunicle of the subdeacon.

Dec 28, 2020 · The Solemn Mass builds further upon the vestments of the Missa Cantata, generally having the cope worn by the priest for the Asperges sprinkling rite, the chasuble for the priest of course, and then in addition the vestments worn by the deacon and subdeacon, namely the dalmatic and tunicle; the subdeacon also wears a large veil for part of the ...

By tunic (tunicella) is understood in liturgical language that sacerdotal upper vestment of the subdeacon which corresponds to the dalmatic of the deacon. According to present usage the dalmatic and tunic are alike both as regards form and ornamentation.

The tunicle is a liturgical vestment associated with Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Lutheranism. It became identical in form with the dalmatic, although it was once distinguished by a single horizontal band on the front and back.