Ahangingorpanel used toform a movable front for analtar. The altars in some churches are of such splendorthat frontals are rarely used, but in other cases a frontal is always in use, and there are sometimes many different frontals, which are changed according to the day. Silk of different colors strained on a frame and often richly embroidered is sometimes used; the colors varying, as white for the feast of a virgin saint, black on a fastday, and the like. (Harris, 1977)
