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[[Image:Cornelius.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Metropolitan Cornelius of Tallinn and All Estonia wearing a Mantiya of a Metropolitan]]
A '''mantiya''', [[Church Slavonic]]: мантия; Greek: μανδύας - '''mandyas'''; English: '''mantle''', is a monastic garment in the form of a very full cape which extends to the floor. It is joined at the neck and is worn over the outer garments.
==Uses==
As a monastic garment, the mantiya is worn by Orthodox monks and [[nun]]s of the Lesser and Great Schemas. In Greek practice the mantiya is use less commonly by those of the Lesser Schema. It is not worn by [[Monastic ranksRanks|Rassaphores]]. The mantiya worn by a simple monk or nun is black, which is the traditional monastic color, symbolizing mourning over one's [[sin]]s and a reminder of the vow of poverty. It is joined at the neck and hangs down to the feet. In the Russian tradition, the mantiya is usually pleated into 33 pleats for the number of years in the earthly life of [[Jesus]]. It may or may not have a train. Over the centuries, much symbolic meaning has come to be attributed to the mantiya:
:"[The] mantle is a monastic vestment, which covers the whole person with the exception of the head. Its freely flowing lines typify the wings of the Angels; hence it is called "the Angelic vestment." The folds of the Mantle are symbolical of the all-embracing power of God; and also of the strictness, piety and meekness of the monastic life; and that the hands and other members of a monk do not live, and are not fitted for worldly activity, but are all dead."<ref>Isabel F. Hapgood, ''Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic Church'', (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, 1975), p. xxxix.</ref>
[[Category: Vestments]]
 
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