Crossword-Solution: AGAPAE 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The vestal virgins became nuns of the church; the _Sacerdotes_, her priests; the mysteries of Isis, her Agapae.

Bread and wine and other things necessary for divine worship and the support of the clergy were brought at the Offertory (the origin of the present Offertory collection), while food for the agapae or for the poor was presented for a blessing towards the end of the Canon, or before Mass.

This contained the _Saal_, or meeting room, as well as the rooms necessary for holding the _agapae_, or love feasts.

Our prior continuing to exalt himself in his priesthood, had our Sisters make for him a robe or costume such as is described in the Bible as having been worn by the high priest in the temple, and when our prior presided thereafter at the _agapae_ and baptisms he presented to the unsophisticated a most gorgeous sight, while to me the whole thing was disgusting.

During the course of the Mass, every Sunday, is duly observed the generally obsolete custom called the _Agapae_, of apostolic institution.