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  • n  an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects

  • Peter Zadgorsky, sacristan of Sveti Kral, for accepting a Communist bribe to permit the plotters to place bombs on the roof of the Cathedral.
  • He gradually recovered presence of mind, rushed inside the church to inform the sacristan.
  • The sacristan found them there in the morning as he prepared to open the cathedral for early Mass, and called police.
News & Articles

  • Alzheimer’s is a struggle with the present
    A few years ago, Carolyn Lambros was an ordinary resident of Cumberland County. She was a devout Catholic who attended Mass every Sunday, even volunteering to be a sacristan. She often worked as a substitute teacher. Overall she lived a normal life with her husband, Chris, of whom she has been married for 32 years.
    Sept. 4, 2013 - Crossville Chronicle
Quotes

  • Dominick Dunne in Bloomberg
    Sweeney "came dressed as, like, a sacristan at a Catholic seminary, and he held a Bible and he read it piously and it was all an act," Dunne said on CNN's "Larry King Live" in 2006. "I had never been to a trial before and it disgusted me. And...
  • Culkin in San Diego Union Tribune
    Before Culkin's career took off, "my father was a sacristan in a Catholic church, which is kind of like a glorified janitor. He set up Mass - he'd take the wafers and the wine out and put it on the gold platter and all that stuff. And I remember...

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