sacristan
IPA: sˈækrʌstæn
noun
- The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
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Examples of "sacristan" in Sentences
- The sacristan was a kind, gentle, little old man, who let me do whatever I wanted.
- "Now do you go and call the sacristan from the bell," the prior said, "and bid him lead you to the chancel, where I shall be."
- Nor did it seem unlikely that a city which styled itself 'the nurse of Artemis' should also claim the less audacious title of 'sacristan' to this same goddess.
- Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret (Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection), sacristan, b. at Mouy, 16 Sept., 1715, professed 19 Aug., 1740, twice sub-prioress in 1764 and 1778.
- He founded the Mozarabic Chapel in Toledo cathedral, with an endowment for thirteen chaplains, a sacristan and two mazos sirvientes, and with provision for a sung Mass and the Divine Office daily.
- But no more than the sacristan is the hemp-dresser gifted solely with the desire of frightening; he loves to make people laugh; he is sarcastic and sentimental at need, when love and marriage are to be sung.
- What followed was seen by only one person, that is, the sacristan's wife, a big, hard-faced woman with a faint mustache and a wart on her chin, who sat by the great column near the door dispensing holy water out of a cracked saucer and whining for pennies.
- Mr. Moya alternates chapters of Haydée's diary with the comic misadventures of her son Clemen and his cousin Jimmy, both on the run from the regime, as they attempt to escape the country, shifting disguises—housemaid, priest, sacristan, livestock traders—and getting lost in a labyrinthine mangrove swamp.
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