Our curate will (all being well) be ordained priest this summer. A traditional gift for a new priest is a set of red vestments, red being the colour for a votive mass of the Holy Spirit. However she needn't think about getting this, which popped up on eBay a few days ago. It's an 18th-century Spanish-pattern red velvet chasuble with silver embroidery and looks so heavy you'd barely be able to move. As a friend pointed out to me, it has sequins too. I think the seller was asking about £1200 for it.
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