Actually, Fr. Hopko is expressing the common opinion about the origin of present-day clerical dress. This is the reason the priest\'s cross has a long hangin chain in the back, because otherwise from the back they were indistinguishable from the jurists whose costume they imitated. I\'m sorry to say, but you will not see a rasso or kalymavki in the mosaics at Ravenna. The only clergy pictured in Ravenna, the mosaic of the entrance with Justianian in San Vitale shows the clergy vested for Liturgy. In the 6th century, there was no fundamental difference between Roman street dress and even the clerical vestments for Liturgy.
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