Since at least the 12th century the cathedral has been an important destination for travellers – and remains so to this day, attracting large numbers of Christian pilgrims, many of who come to venerate its famous relic, the Sancta Camisa, said to be the tunic worn by the Virgin Mary at Christ's birth, as well as large numbers of secular tourists who come to see this UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The cosmological principle is consistent with the observed isotropy of: ( i ) the celestial distribution of radio galaxies, which are randomly distributed across the entire sky, ( ii ) the large scale spatial distribution of galaxies, which form a randomly tangled web of clusters and voids up to around 400 megaparsecs in width, ( iii ) the isotropic distribution of observed red shift in the spectra of distant galaxies, which implies a uniform expansion of space or Hubble flow in all directions, and ( iv ) the cosmic microwave background radiation, the relic radiation released by the expansion and cooling of the early universe, which is constant in all directions to within 1 part in 100, 000.

This has provoked some controversy as a large part of the public as well as the political right see the holiday as a relic of the nation's Communist past.

Two large fans ( flabella ) made of white ostrich feathers — a relic of the ancient liturgical use of the flabellum, mentioned in the Constitutiones Apostolicae — are carried at either side of the sedia gestatoria.

The other relic of the park's industrial past are the large number of eucalyptus glades which were planted around the factory site " for safety reasons " ( as the park literature mysteriously states .).

A small part of this relic, or one believed to be the same, was one of the large group sold by Baldwin II of Constantinople to Louis IX of France in 1241 and housed in the Sainte Chapelle in Paris ( not to be confused with the Sainte Chapelle at Chambéry, home for a time of the Shroud of Turin ) until it disappeared during the French Revolution.

Parker and Thomas finally destroy the last Order base, and capturing a very large relic, much bigger than any other Xenofact ever seen.

At his press conference in 2008, Semyon Gluzman said that the surplus in Ukraine of hospitals for inpatient treatment of the mentally ill was a relic of the totalitarian communist regime and that Ukraine did not have epidemic of schizophrenia but somehow Ukraine had about 90 large psychiatric hospitals including the Pavlov Hospital where beds only in its children's unit were more than in the whole of Great Britain.

* In biology a relict ( or relic ) is an organism that at an earlier time was abundant in a large area but now occurs at only one or a few small areas.

Unfortunately, from the classical standpoint investigative work is viewed upon as having difficulty to interpret ; data with no end product isolating power and then man, as either in a position of interpretation by the classical theorists as the final conclusion or man having anthropological characteristics with ancient relic features borrowed from the Pleistocene era which have never altered with additional evolutionary, cultural and biological salient features rather than having a real historical and social character involved. Or to investigate critically this power, with man and his involvement with his interactions with the environment making it impossible to have any rigorous explanation or conclusions. Political systems, or knowledge systems in general, from the classical perspective, become too large to be comprehended interpreting the environment of man as an anachronism ; information and data produced surrounding man as poorly understood viewing historical information as having no, or absence of history. Obviously from the classical point of view, modern research methods ( all from " Social sciences, Sociology, Humanities ") cannot be used to penetrate observation leaving gaps in our knowledge and an accepted taken for granted approach to any analysis. Foucault views this as the exact opposite of rational analysis, with its operations ( power ) as nothing more than a series of contingencies and networks.

When his sons heard that King Ksheeradara had died in the war, they raised a large army to attack King Guhaseeva and destroy the relic.

The Savuti Marsh is the relic of a large inland lake whose water supply was cut a long time ago by tectonic movements.

One obvious conclusion from the geographical configuration, is that the four, now extinct, ‘ oasis ’ dialects are the last remnants of a large, single area ( Sprachbund ) over all of which this feature was once found, before the penetration of Arvanitika which had the effect of dividing and separating these four relic areas from each other.

Close to Hambantota, the large temple of Tissamaharama was built to house a sacred tooth relic.

The most significant impact from this war was the settling of large numbers of Loyalist refugees in the region, especially in Shelburne and Parrtown ( Saint John ).

Until high school, of which he attended Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky his featured characters were a large cast of stick figures featured in comedy-adventures like the Barks comics and old movies Don enjoyed most.

She had built a life with her husband Gerald Frederick " Fred " Peterson ( who was a doctor ) and three daughters from Zimbabwe to Saint Paul, Minnesota, having assumed the alias Sara Jane Olson ; the surname chosen being one of the most common names in Minnesota due to the large decent of Scandinavian-Americans.

On April 25, 1507, as a member of the Gymnasium Vosagense at Saint Diey ( German: Sankt Didel ) in the duchy of Lorraine ( today Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France ), he produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map ( Universalis Cosmographia, both bearing the first use of the name " America ").

After checking each island, Warner decided that Saint Kitts would prove to be the best-suited site for an English colony, because of its strategic central position ideal for expansion, friendly native population, fertile soil, abundant fresh water, and large salt deposits.

Saint Vincent protests Venezuela's claim to give full effect to Aves ( Bird ) Island, which creates a Venezuelan EEZ / continental shelf extending over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea.

In the summer of 1902 Stravinsky stayed with the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and his family in the German city of Heidelberg, where Rimsky-Korsakov, arguably the leading Russian composer at that time, suggested to Stravinsky that he should not enter the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire, but instead study composing by taking private lessons, in large part because of his age.

The Falkland Islands have a large non-native born population, mainly from Britain, but also from Saint Helena.

The Dominican Republic, Antigua, Aruba, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Barbados, Dominica, Haiti, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Maarten, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts, Saint Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are also known for lengthy carnival seasons and large celebrations.

The Saint Lawrence (; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye ; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning " big waterway ") is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

A statue of Saint Mary and its large pedestal are then covered with all the flowers.

Moscow and Saint Petersburg ( formerly Leningrad ) together provided over half of the incumbent president's support, but he also did well in large cities in the Urals and in the north and northeast.

Kathryn and Clark have also co-authored a large number of magazine articles in the Latter-day Saint magazine, Meridian.

The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis (, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis, previously the Abbaye de Saint-Denis ) is a large medieval abbey church in the commune of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris.

Several large hotel projects like the Port Charles Marina project in Speightstown helped the tourism industry continue to expand in 1996 – 99, and more recently the new Hilton Hotel on Needhams Point, Saint Michael in 2005.

On 17 April 1421, the Saint Elisabeth's flood flooded large parts of southern Holland, causing Dordrecht to become an island.

However, some metropolitan areas contain more than one large city with no single municipality holding a substantially dominant position ( e. g. Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex or Minneapolis – Saint Paul ).

Saint Catherine also had a large female following, whose devotion was less likely to be expressed through pilgrimage.

This text inculcated in Westerners an image of " India " as a place of exotic wonders and offered the earliest description of Saint Thomas establishing a Christian sect there ( the Saint Thomas Christians ), motifs that loomed large over later accounts of Prester John.

However this was not completely the case as a large proportion of the assembly were conservative-minded gentry like Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper.

Mexico also has a large number of people of Irish ancestry, among them the actor Anthony Quinn.

Ben was held by Anthony Thompson, who became Mary's second husband, and who ran a large plantation near Blackwater River in Madison, Maryland.

Tubman had been hired out to Dr. Anthony Thompson, who owned a large plantation in an area called Poplar Neck in neighboring Caroline County ; it is likely her brothers labored for Thompson as well.

The so-called interrupter gear did not come into use until Anthony Fokker developed a synchronization device which had a large impact on air combat ; however, Garros also had a significant role in the process of achieving this goal.

His latest large scale resort project involved designing and rejuvenating the landscape, furniture, sculpture and gardens at Hayman Island and it ’ s private estates on Australia ’ s Great Barrier Reef, after they were devastated by tropical cyclones Anthony and Yasi.

Anthony is buried in a chapel within the large basilica built to honor him, where his tongue is displayed for veneration in a large reliquary.

Bloomington has been home to a large number of musicians and " scholars " over the years, including Strawberry McCloud, Lotus Dickey, Miles Krassen, Anthony Seeger, Bob Lucas, Caroline Peyton, Mark Bingham, Willy Schwartz, Jessica Radcliffe, Hawk Hubbard, Linda Higginbotham, Brad Leftwich, Ruthie Allen, Grey Larsen, Cindy Kallet, Bruce Anderson, Pete Sutherland, Malcolm Daglish, Sam Bartlett, Jamie Gans, Ken Perlman, and numerous backporch pickers who support the active contra dance, Irish, and bluegrass music scenes.

He ran a trading post and for his services as a scout for the army of General Anthony Wayne was given a large tract of land known as the Shanes Grant, and all abstracts of title for royalty here start with this grant.

The Town of Anthony secured a large Texas Parks and Wildlife Department grant ( approx: $ 780, 000 ) in early 2007 to increase the size of Henry Miramontes Park.

A large section of bare desert land on the north side of Antonio Street near the 1400 – 1600 block is designated to become a soccer field complex with at least 4 fields and home to the Anthony Desert Rats soccer team.

At the east end of the park where Antonio Street and Franklin Street intersect there is a flag pole beside a large metal sign which reads Welcome to Anthony in red letters facing to the east towards I-10.

As a young man he had a wide familiarity with dramatic and literary society, meeting many writers, including Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope, and this background helped to obtain for him a large legal practice, particularly in criminal cases.

For all that, in June 1961 Bray still decided to move and despite his recent marriage “ lmost every day went round, often spending a good part of the day or a large part of the evening there .” “ Oddly enough, this side of his life was well known about in Paris … natural reserve and well-developed sense of decorum were allied to his fear of giving offence to Suzanne .” Anthony Cronin notes that strangely – or perhaps not so strangely – during this time he was often to be found talking “ fervently and seriously about suicide .” Despite his unwillingness to do much about it he was clearly suffering badly from guilt.

The materials for Linacre's biography are to a large extent contained in the older biographical collections of George Lily ( in Paulus Jovius, Descriptio Britanniae ), John Bale, John Leland and Pits, in Anthony Wood's Athenae Oxonienses and in the Biographia Britannica.

Anthony Henday of the Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ) met a large Niitsitapi group in 1754 in what is now Alberta.

The UK has had a large impact on modern cinema, producing some of the greatest actors, directors and motion pictures of all time including, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, David Lean, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, John Gielgud, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Day-Lewis.

An ongoing feud with Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis escalated in the late 1990s, with Kiedis removing Mr. Bungle from a number of large music festivals in Europe and Australasia.

The Cliff Tucker Theatre, on the banks of the River Dulas, was opened by Sir Anthony Hopkins in 1996 and incorporates teaching rooms, lecture theatres and a large computer room.

In 1987, then-Democrat Foster unseated liberal Democratic state Senator Anthony Guarisco, Jr., of Morgan City by a large margin.

The large cast of co-stars includes Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, James Farentino, Ian Holm, Olivia Hussey, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, James Mason, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quinn, Fernando Rey, Ralph Richardson, Rod Steiger, Peter Ustinov, and Michael York.

Italian religious feasts, such as the Feast of St. Anthony, and processions are still celebrated in the streets of the North End, and draw large crowds.