Small round container used to carry the consecrated host for the sick?

Answer 1

The word pyx (Lat., pyxis, which transliterates the Greek, pyxis, box-wood receptacle, from pyxos, box-tree) was formerly applied in a wide and general sense to all vessels used to contain the Blessed Eucharist. In particular it was perhaps the commonest term applied to the cup in which the Blessed Sacrament actually rested when in the Middle Ages it was suspended above the altar. Thus the Custumal of Cluny in the eleventh century speaks of the "deacon taking the golden pyx (auream pyxidem) out of the dove (columba) which hangs permanently above the altar". In later times however it has come about that the term pyx is limited in ordinary usage to that smaller vessel of gold, or silver-gilt, in which the Eucharist is commonly carried to the sick.

Answer 2

Catholic AnswerIt is called a pyx.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Pyx. Any metal box or vessel in which the blessed Sacrament is kept or carried. The term is more aptly applied to the small round metal cased (usually gold-plated) used by a priest to carry a few hosts on his visitation to the sick. But the larger ciborium is also called a pyx. (Etym. Greek puxis, box.)

Answer 3

Catholic AnswerThe pyx is a small, round case used to bring the Host to the sick.

Answer 4

The object used to carry the consecrated host or Eucharist is called a pyx, which is derived from the latin word pyxiswhich means box.

Answer 5

The container in question is called a pyx.

Answer 6

It is a small circular metal box that is called a pix.