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Definition of "sudary" []

  • A napkin or handkerchief (noun)

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Use "sudary" in a sentence
  • "And then when the apostles came to the Vale of Jehosaphat, they found a sepulchre like unto the sepulchre of our Lord, and laid therein the body with great reverence, but they durst not touch it, which was the right holy vessel of God, but the sudary in which she was wrapped, and laid it in the sepulchre."
  • "S. James sent to him his sudary or keverchief and said: Say to him that our"
  • "Lord redresseth them that be hurt, and unbindeth them that be empeshed; and as soon as he said so, and touched the sudary, he was unbound and loosed from all the enchanting of Hermogenes, and arose up and went joyfully to S. James."