Why this word is great
ARTOPHORION — [Noun] A sacred vessel in Eastern Orthodox churches, often elaborately adorned, designed to hold the reserved Eucharist on the altar. From the Greek αρτοφόριο (artofório), derived from Ancient Greek ἄρτος (ártos, "bread") and φέρω (phérō, "to carry"), meaning "bread-bearer". Unlike the pyx (a modest, portable casket for the Eucharist in the West) or the tabernacle (a fixed, often towering shrine in Roman Catholic tradition), the artophorion is both reliquary and ritual object, central to the Eastern liturgy. It is the gleam of gold under candlelight, the slow swing of incense around its sealed form, the priest’s careful hands lifting the lid to reveal what the faithful already know: that mystery, too, has a dwelling place.