{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110291.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110291.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110291.htm","text":"Of their Capes. 656\nNext they cover their necks and shoulders with a narrow cape, aiming at modesty of dress as well as cheapness and economy; and this is called in our language as well as theirs mafors; and so they avoid both the expense and the display of cloaks and great coats.\nThe mafors (\u03bc\u03b1\u03c6\u03ce\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd or \u03bc\u03b1\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd) is the monkish scapular, or working-dress. Cf. the Rule of S. Benedict, c. 55: \u201cScapulare propter opera.\u201d In form it was a large, coarse cape, or hood.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter VI. Of their Capes.","type":"page"}