The minster houses the city's most precious relic, a 10th-century Byzantine icon called Our Lady of St. Theodore.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

Reaching for an old clay pot, relic of pioneer days, he tore the envelope in pieces, dropping them into it, touching the little pyre to flame, watching it curl, the red sealing wax melting and bubbling in the feathery ash.

The O & AT's single passenger coach, a relic of Wotton Tramway days, was removed from its wheels and used as a platelayer's hut at Brill station.

In 2009 the Manitoba NDP's Riel riding association proposed a resolution on replacing the flag as " outdated and a relic from the days of our former British colonial heritage " but this was not heard by the party convention.

Somewhat farther to the west is a relic of the days of commercial shipping-the Montrose Swing Bridge still carries a railway track over the river even though it has not opened for a ship in about 75 years.

A possible relic of the smuggling days of Beith is the ley tunnel that is said to run from the site of the Grace Church on Eglinton Street to Kilbirnie Loch.

GM Joe Gallagher calls it " a forgotten relic, hardly having set foot in a tournament hall since the days of Frank Marshall and Rudolph Spielmann.

The Kings House Hotel, lying about 2 km to the east of the head of the glen towards Rannoch Moor, is a relic of the old coaching days when it was customary for tourists to drive from Ballachulish via Tyndrum to Loch Lomond.

On administrative days, officers wore a blue patrol jacket detailed with a pleated spine pad, a relic of the Boer War.

The canal was two miles long, had no locks, was twelve feet wide and had a depth of four feet, with much of its cut following the old course of the sea channel, a relic of the days when Ardeer was an island.

Buderim contains a significant heritage relic of the early days in the form of Pioneer Cottage, restored and cared for by the Buderim Historical Society.

The old Modified Mercalli intensity scale ( MM ), a relic of the pre-instrument days, remains useful in the sense that each intensity-level provides an observable difference in seismic damage.

Over the last decade however, the coaches run, only on the Accra-Nsawam route as the only relic from the glorious days of rail transport.

He held that " he exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours ," and that " to those who ask why the word should include females, the obvious answer is why should it not.

Some time later the missing part of the relic was found and the complete inscription, together with other new evidence, fully corroborated the ancient priest's information.

He was extremely skeptical of Peter Bartholomew's discovery in Antioch of the Holy Lance, especially because he knew such a relic already existed in Constantinople ; however, he was willing to let the Crusader army believe it was real if it raised their morale.

The relic was destined for Japan but religious persecution there persuaded the church to keep it in Macau's Cathedral of St. Paul.

More recently the relic was moved to St. Joseph's Seminary and the Sacred Art Museum.

For his part, Kennedy thought that Adenauer was a relic of the past, stating " The real trouble is that he is too old and I am too young for us to understand each other.

When the battle was lost, Saladin captured the relic, which was then ransomed back to the Crusaders when the Muslims surrendered the city of Acre in 1191.

Another hero of the Grail quest, Sir Galahad ( a 13th-century literary invention of monks from St. Bernard's Cistercian Order ) was depicted bearing a shield with the cross of Saint George, similar to the Templars ' insignia: this version presented the " Holy " Grail as a Christian relic.

However, in the extensive documents of the Templar inquisition there was never a single mention of anything like a Grail relic, let alone its possession by the Templars, nor is there any evidence that a Templar wrote a Grail Romance.

The historic Frank-Loeb house is another relic of the Jewish presence in Landau: its proprietor in the late 19th Century was Zacharias Frank, great-grandfather of Anne Frank.

A relic of these differences is found in emergency telephone numbers used in various countries ; the United Kingdom selected 999 due to the ease of converting call office dials to make free calls (' 0 ' for the Operator was already free ), whereas in New Zealand's 111 was selected for the same reason: 111 actually pulses 999 to the central office / telephone exchange.

Until the late 1980s, UMIST's official alumni organisation was called the Manchester Technology Association, a name which was a relic of UMIST's past incarnation as ' The Tech '.

This lone relic was reburied in 1642 with a new marker, which was replaced 100 years later with a more elaborate monument.

A two-handed claymore, purporting to be Wallace's, which may contain original metal from his sword blade, was kept by the Scottish kings and is displayed as a relic in the Wallace Monument.

This relic was brought to Roskilde around the year 1100, after St. Lucius had been declared patron of the Danish region Zealand.

According to a tradition from the 16th century, his arm was preserved as a relic in a casket above the portal of Saint Bavo of Ghent.

Pope Pius V ( 1566 – 1572 ) is said to have recommended that pilgrims gather sand from the arena of the Colosseum to serve as a relic, on the grounds that it was impregnated with the blood of martyrs.

The main fact, however, is thus confirmed, that a rod was preserved in the Tabernacle as a relic of the institution of the Aaronic priesthood.

In short, it was written in the time of “ sticking it to the man .” Although the book was published in the seventies, it is truly a relic of the sixties.

Private sales between residents of two different states are also prohibited without going through a licensed dealer, except for the case of a buyer holding a Curio & Relic license purchasing a firearm that qualifies as a curio or relic.

It is also home to, among other amenities, a " mall " with a Nickelodeon-brand retail shop, a convenience store, an assortment of fast-food restaurants such as Subway, Uno Chicago Grill and A & W, and two buffets ; a " 4-D Theater " which showcases SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D, the aforementioned waterpark-style pools, and a relic from Nickelodeon history: the time capsule that was buried outside the former Nickelodeon Studios complex at nearby Universal Studios Florida.

A dam constructed by the Tennessee Electric Power Company across the river adjacent to downtown Shelbyville is a relic of the early electrical development of the area prior to the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The relic had been sent from the Byzantine Emperor Justin II to Queen Radegund of the Franks, who after her husband Chlotar I's death had founded a monastery in Poitiers.

Sources conflict on the details of what precisely motivated Sigmar to do this ; some accounts, including those in the earliest background, claim he set off to return Ghal-Maraz to the Dwarfs, but the famous rune-hammer has traditionally been the weapon of the ruling Emperor and the primary symbol / relic of the Sigmarite cult, founded by Johann Helstrum in IC 73.

His granddaughter Eleanor of Aquitaine founded a collegial church to honour the relic which, according to legend, facilitated pregnancies and male offspring.

By 1885, the Liberty Bell was internationally recognized as a symbol of freedom, and as a treasured relic of Independence, and was growing still more famous as versions of Lippard's legend were reprinted in history and school books.

" They attempted to destroy these books, the earliest vita already says, and this account underlies the status of the Ragyndrudis Codex, now held as a Bonifacian relic in Fulda, and supposedly one of three books found on the field by the Christians who inspected it afterward.

It has recently been proposed that he may have been a lay agent or representative of the cathedral chapter of Cambrai Cathedral to obtain a relic of St. Elizabeth of Hungary who had made a donation to the cathedral chapter and to whom the chapter dedicated one of the radiating chapels in their new cathedral chevet.

Coldwater has an east-west railroad, but this is practically a relic of one that led to Chicago and Detroit, MI

On his return trip, he bought a relic of St Augustine of Hippo for 100 silver talents and one gold talent.

Sir John Mandeville declared in 1357 that he had seen the blade of the Holy Lance both at Paris and at Constantinople, and that the latter was a much larger relic than the former ; it is worth adding that Mandeville is not generally regarded as one of the Middle Ages ' most reliable witnesses, and his supposed travels are usually treated as an eclectic amalgam of myths, legends and other fictions.

In the mid-18th century Pope Benedict XIV states that he obtained from Paris an exact drawing of the point of the lance, and that in comparing it with the larger relic in St. Peter's he was satisfied that the two had originally formed one blade.

Today the ancient city of Polonnaruwa remains one of the best planned archaeological relic sites in the country, standing testimony to the discipline and greatness of the Kingdom's first rulers.

In John Heywood's Play Called the Four PP ( 1530s ), the Pardoner, a Renaissance update of Chaucer's Pardoner, offers his companions the opportunity to kiss " a slipper / Of one of the Seven Sleepers ," but the relic is presented as absurdly as the Pardoner's other offerings, which include " the great-toe of the Trinity " and " a buttock-bone of Pentecost.

Though King Henry VIII's commissioners declared the famous relic to be nothing but the blood of a duck, regularly renewed, and though the Abbot Stephen Sagar admitted that the Holy Blood was a fake in hope of saving the Abbey, Hailes Abbey was one of the last religious institutions to acquiesce following the Dissolution Act of 1536.

However, subsequently Archbishop Visconti of Milan gave his own decision that " the iron ring in the Monza crown should be considered as one of the Nails of the Holy Cross and as an original relic.

It is one of the few Zelda games not to take place in the fictional land of Hyrule, and does not feature Princess Zelda or the fictional Triforce relic.

The Shroud of Turin is the best-known relic of Jesus and one of, if not the, most studied artifacts in human history.

For example, if one group of characters leaves a sacred relic somewhere, another character may come and find it on a later day in his own part of the game.

It is considered a living relic and one of Beijing's finest monuments.

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.

New reliquaries were provided for the relic, one commissioned by Napoleon, another, in jewelled rock crystal and more suitably Gothic, was made to the designs of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc.

The statement in one medieval obituary that Peter de Averio gave to the cathedral of Angers " unam de spinis quae fuit apposita coronae spinae nostri Redemptoris " (" one of the spines which were touched to the thorny crown of our Redeemer ") ( de Mély, p. 362 ) indicates that many of the thorns were relics of the third class — objects touched to a relic of the first class, in this case some part of the crown itself.

After pushing back a well organized cray counter-attack ( after completing the series of missions that required destroying high value targets to the crays ), the Order makes one final attack on a Crayven base that was built around another small alien relic.

One of the player's main objectives is to find pieces of a relic known as the Chronoscepter ; there is one piece on each level.

A small piece of wood, a relic from one Hinkler's hand-made gliders, was presented to the U. S. astronaut Don Lind in early 1986 as a token of appreciation for his coming to Bundaberg to contribute to the Hinkler Memorial Lectures.

She occasionally expresses excitement at humiliation, shown through the use of her grandfather's bowler hat, a symbol that is born during one sexual encounter with Tomáš, before it eventually changes meaning and becomes a relic of the past.