Monstrance
A monstrance is an object liturgy of the Catholic religion and is also designated (Latin shows, because species - sensible appearances - the bread and wine are visible) at the Council of Cologne in 1452.
This is a piece of jewelry for containing the wafer consecrated to expose him to the adoration of the faithful.
It can be used inside a church for the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament , or in processions such as Corpus Christi , sixty days after Easter. The monstrance appears very often in the form of a sun , in which a circular space (the lunula ) is housed at the center to receive the wafer consecrated.
When the priest installs the wafer consecrated in the lunula, it subtracts the eyes of the faithful through the humeral veil. Similarly, when the monstrance is brought in procession , the priest does not touch the monstrance with the veil.
Tradition has it that when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, believers kneel in token of respect to the man they regard as God.
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