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AMPULLA (either a diminutive of See also:amphora, of from See also:Lat. See also:ambo, both, and olla, a pot)  , a small, narrow-necked, See also:round-bodied See also:vase for holding liquids, especially oil and perfumes . It is the Latin See also:term See also:equivalent to the See also:Greek X7'7KVBos . It was used in See also:ancient times for See also:toilet purposes and See also:anointing the bodies of the dead, being then buried with them . See also:Gildas mentions the use-of ampullae as established among the Britons in his See also:time, and St See also:Columba is said to have employed one in the See also:coronation of See also:King See also:Aidan . Both the name and the See also:function of the See also:ampulla have survived in the Western See also:Church, where it still signifies the See also:vessel containing the oil consecrated by the See also:bishop for See also:ritual uses, especially in the sacraments of See also:Confirmation, Orders and Extreme See also:Unction . The word occurs repeatedly in the service of coronation of the See also:English See also:sovereign in connexion with the ancient ceremony of anointing by the See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, which is still observed . The ampulla of the See also:regalia of See also:England takes the See also:form of a See also:golden See also:eagle with outspread wings . The most celebrated ampulla in See also:history was that known as la sainte ampoule, in the See also:abbey of St Remi at See also:Reims, from which the See also:kings of See also:France were anointed . According to the See also:legend it had been brought from See also:heaven by a See also:dove for the coronation of See also:Clovis, and at one See also:period the kings of France claimed See also:precedence over all other sovereigns on See also:account of it . It was destroyed at the Revolution . The word " ampulla " is used in See also:biology, by See also:analogy from the shape, for a certain portion of the See also:anatomy of a plant or See also:animal .

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