Chapel (English spelling) chapel; cappella

Japanese: チャペル（英語表記）chapel; cappella

A chapel. A house or room where Christian worship is conducted, other than a parish church or cathedral. The word comes from the word cappa, which means a cloak. A part of the cloak of Saint Martin, the patron saint of the military, was preserved as a holy relic, and from the 6th century onwards, Frankish kings added other holy relics to it, carried it on journeys and on the battlefield, and had a dedicated chaplain guard it. This eventually developed into a chapel in the royal courts of the nobles, and the chaplain came to serve as a secretary and advisor to the nobles. Later, the auxiliary churches of monasteries, schools, hospitals and other buildings outside the royal courts also came to be called chapels.

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Japanese:

礼拝堂。教区の聖堂またはカテドラルと呼ばれる以外の，キリスト教の礼拝が行われる家屋，部屋などをさす。語源をなす cappaとはマントのことで，軍隊の保護聖人マルタンのマントの一部を聖遺物として保存し，6世紀の頃からフランクの諸王がこれに他の聖遺物を加えて，旅行や戦陣にたずさえ，安置して専従の聖職者チャプレンに護衛させた。やがてこれが諸侯の宮廷の聖堂に発展し，チャプレンは王侯の書記，相談役などを兼ねるようになった。のち宮廷以外の修道院，学校，病院などの付属聖堂などもチャペルと呼ばれるにいたった。

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