ANGELIC Garment (Angelica vestis), among our ancestors, was a monkish garment, which laymen put on a little before their death, that they might have the benefit of the prayers of the monks. It was from them called angelical, because they were called angeli, who by these prayers animæ salutis succurrebant. Hence, where we read the phrase monachus ad succurrendum in our old books, it must be understood of one who had put on the habit when he was at the point of death.