sacrist

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sacrist

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From Late Latin sacrista.

noun sacrists

A sacristan. At some unknown point during the twelfth century the problem of waking up at night at the right time to ring the bell was solved, because, in a new version of the Rule for Cistercian monks, it says that the sacrist 'roused by the sound of the clock shall ring the church bell'.
A person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir and take care of the books.

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@misc{sacrist_2026,
  title = {sacrist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sacrist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}