The Probert Encyclopaedia of Other Mythology

HOST

In Christian mythology, the host (from the Latin hostia, a sacrificial victim), is a term used for the bread (or wafer) and wine in the eucharist, as containing the body and blood of Christ. As the wafer alone is given to laymen in the Roman Catholic Church, as containing both the body and blood of the Redeemer, the term host is usually applied to the consecrated wafer.
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