CHASUBLE

Description: FULL LENGTH ROUND CUT WITH COTTON LINED COLLAR, YELLOW & BLUE PIPING ALONG SEAMS. YELLOW & SILVER EMBROIDERED CROSS ON BACK WITH CENTRAL CHIRO GREEK SYMBOLS IN CIRCLE. FRONT SAME MOTIF BUT BLUE & YELLOW EMBOIDERY & WITHOUT SYMBOLS IN CIRCLE. FRONT FASTENED WITH VELCRO, NOT ORIGINAL TO COSTUME. SMALL BROWN STAIN NEAR BOTTOM- CENTRE OF FRONT. BACK HAS BEGUN TO YELLOW SLIGHTLY. EMBROIDERY COMING UNSTITCHED. CIRCLE ALSO CONTAINS ALPHA & OMEGA.

History: USED AT ADVENT AND LENT SERVICES (LAETARE). OBLATES ACTIVE IN LETHBRIDGE AREA SINCE 1ST BAPTISM AT FORT HAMILTON BY FATHER SCOLLEN IN 1873. FATHER VAN TIGHEM CELEBRATED THE 1ST MASS IN 1884 IN COALBANKS. THEREAFTER ESTABLISHING A PARISH IN 1886 & BUILDING 1ST ST. PATRICKS CHURCH IN 1887 IN SEPTEMBER VAN TIGHEM MOVED TO NEW PARISH AS ITS PRIEST. THE OBLATE OF MARY IMMACULATE (OMI) HISTORICALLY SOMETIMES CALLED THE BLACKROBES BECAUSE OF THEIR CHARACTERISTIC BLACK ROBES. THE OBLATES ARE RETIRING FROM LETHBRIDGE IN JULY .1990. THIS ROBE WAS NORMALLY WORN WITH A CINCTURE OR BELT SNAP FASTENED AT THE WAIST WITH A LARGE CROSS (12.7 X 20.4) & HUNG BY A CORD FROM THE NECK.