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Rh end hangs down in front (from the left side), the other behind. It is then kept in its places with ornamented pins. The small omophorion is simply a curtailed form of the great one. It is worn from after the Gospel to the end of the liturgy, and for ordinations and other functions. A bishop also wears a pectoral cross and a little medal containing a relic. The Byzantine mitre is a metal crown, gilt, ornamented with jewels and lined with red velvet. Bishops carry a crozier, which is shorter than a Latin one and which ends in two branches curved round and ornamented with serpents' heads. Between them is a cross. These are the vestments used for the Holy Liturgy and certain other great occasions, such as the blessing of the waters on the Epiphany. On less solemn occasions, such as the Divine Office, the bishop wears only the mandyas (p. 340), kalemaukion (ibid.), and a smaller staff of wood with an ivory cross piece, like the letter T. For certain other services he wears the epitrachelion under and the small omophorion over the mandyas. To bless the people at the end of the liturgy he has in the right hand a triple candlestick with lighted candles, and a double one in the left. When a bishop is consecrated he stands on a small round carpet, on which are worked a city and above it an eagle surmounting the sun in its splendour. The Priest's vestments are the sticharion, epitrachelion, girdle, epimanikia. If he is a dignitary of any kind he wears the epigonation too, and in Russia the Czar gives mitres to specially deserving priests. Instead of the sakkos he wears the Phainolion. This is a chasuble (pœnula,