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There is a much better meaning of m chiton = Mary's chiton, which refers to Mary's undergarment.

At first, I thought it referred to Mary and Jesus' chiton:
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Then I found that the protective cloak of Mary had great significance in the Middle Ages. But the protective cloak is not a chiton in the classical sense and was also written differently in Latin:

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But there is indeed Mary's chiton, which Mary is said to have worn at the time of the Nativity. It is kept in Aachen Cathedral and is one of the four great shrines of the Middle Ages.

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This gives us historical evidence for the chiton – in the sense of protection/healing. Medieval pilgrims believed that even the fibres of the garment could heal illnesses. The Aachen Marian garment was so famous in the 15th century that every Bavarian pilgrim knew that if you invoked the ‘Mary's shirt’ (the chiton), illness or evil had no chance.