CORPORAL (Corporale), is also an ancient church-term, signifying the sacred linen spread under the chalice in the eucharist and mass, to receive the fragments of the bread, if any chance to fall. Some say, it was pope Eusebius who first enjoined the use of the corporal; others ascribe it to St. Silvester. It was the custom to carry corporals, with some solemnity, to fires, and to leave them against the flames, in order to extinguish them. Philip de Comines says, the pope made Louis XI. a present of the corporale, wherein my lord St. Peter sung mass.