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Rh The Orthodox vestments (they are used by the Uniates as well, of course) correspond more or less to ours. It is a very curious case of a parallel evolution. They too, like ours, have developed out of the ordinary Roman dress of the first three centuries; only difference of rite and taste make them now look quite different. In the first place they have nothing like our sequence of liturgical colours and no idea of definite liturgical colour at all. Their vestments are generally white or red and are now always stiff with heavy gold embroidery. They naturally take the handsomest set (of whatever colour) for the greatest feasts. They do, however, as a rule, use black for funerals. When a Bishop is about to celebrate the Holy Liturgy, he first puts on over his cassock the Sticharion. This is the old tunica talaris, our alb, but it may be of any colour and is generally made of silk or even velvet. It is a long shirt with sleeves, reaching to the feet and wrists, and it is embroidered at the bottom. The bishop's sticharion has red and white bands running from the shoulders to the feet (, the Roman clavus, which we have on our dalmatics). Then he puts on the Epitrachelion (, stole). It is worn round the neck and hangs down in front nearly to the feet. The two bands are generally hooked together or even