Richard Mather
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Richard Mather was a New England Puritan minister in colonial Boston. He was father to Increase Mather and grandfather to Cotton Mather, both celebrated Boston theologians.
Illustration of Richard Mather by John Foster, c. 1675
The Rev. Increase Mather
The Rev. Cotton Mather
The Rev. John Cotton
Surplice
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A surplice is a liturgical vestment of Western Christianity, particularly in Latin Catholicism, Evangelical-Lutheranism and Anglicanism. The surplice is in the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton
Richard Mather
…in matters of ceremony; and in 1634 was again suspended by the visitors of Richard Neile, archbishop of York, who, hearing that he had never worn a surplice during the fifteen years of his ministry, refused to reinstate him and said that "it had been better for him that he had begotten seven bastards". He…
Seminarian vested in a pleated Roman-style surplice with lace inserts, (shown in white) holding a thurible.
The Death of St. Bede, the monastic clergy are wearing surplices over their cowls (original painting at St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw).
Abbess Joanna van Doorselaer de ten Ryen, in choir dress. Waasmunster Roosenberg Abbey.
An altar server stands before the priest during the reading of the Gospel in the offering of the Holy Mass at Saint Mary's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Helsingborg, Sweden