According to the epic of El Cid, the Castilian nobility led by El Cid and a dozen " oath-helpers " forced Alfonso to swear publicly in front of Santa Gadea ( Saint Agatha ) Church in Burgos on holy relics multiple times that he did not participate in the plot to kill his brother.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Viking raiders struck England in 793 and raided Lindisfarne, the monastery that held Saint Cuthbert ’ s relics.

According to William of Malmesbury, relics such as the Sword of Constantine ( Emperor of Rome ) and the Lance of Charlemagne ( first Holy Roman Emperor ) came to Athelstan, suggesting that he was in some way being associated with past great rulers.

According to legend, the relic was given to the cathedral by Charlemagne who received it as a gift from Emperor Constantine VI during a crusade to Jerusalem, however this legend was pure fiction ( Charlemagne never went to the Holy Land ) – probably invented in the 11th century to authenticate some relics at the Abbey of St Denis.

According to Eginhard's brief description, the commendatio made to Pippin the Younger in 757 by Tassillo, Duke of Bavaria, involved the relics of Saints Denis, Rusticus, and Éleuthère, Saint Martin, and Saint Germain, which had apparently been assembled at Compiègne for the event.

According to some sources, the Russian vessel transporting the relics sank on the way.

According to an inventory of the Museum's collection conducted between 2004 and 2010, the Palace Museum holds a total of 1, 807, 558 artifacts and includes 1, 684, 490 items designated as nationally protected " valuable cultural relics.

According to legend, the Breton chief Waroch II sent an emissary to seize the relics.

According to the 19th century German classicist, Arnold Heeren: “ In the Greek geographers, for instance, we read of two islands, named Tyrus or Tylos, and Aradus, which boased that they were the mother country of the Phoenicians, and exhibited relics of Phoenician temples .” The people of Tyre in particular have long maintained Persian Gulf origins, and the similarity in the words “ Tylos ” and “ Tyre ” has been commented upon.

According to St. Bede, Chad was venerated as a saint immediately after his death, and his relics were translated to a new shrine.

According to believers, these relics were ascertained to be genuine after they started emitting a liquid and strong scented myrrh.

According to the Milinda Pañha, at the end of his reign Menander I became a Buddhist arhat, a fact also echoed by Plutarch, who explains that his relics were shared and enshrined.

According to legend, Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, discovered the seamless robe in the Holy Land in the year 327 or 328 along with several other relics, including the True Cross.

According to an article in the October 2005 issue of Rail Professional, at that time Island Line were paying " an eye-watering £ 140, 000 a year " to lease the trains, meaning that " ince privatisation, HSBC Rail has pocketed over £ 1m for leasing these relics that are effectively worthless.

According to a letter dated October 17, 1788, ' The workmen now employed in digging the foundations of some religious houses which stood upon St. James ' Green, where the great annual fair of that name is now held in the neighbourhood of this town, have dug up two sone coffins of which the bones were entire, several pieces of painted glass, a silver coin of Robert II, and other antique relics '.

According to a legend, Sun Quan ( 孙权 ), King of the Kingdom of Wu, had obtained Sharira relics, which are cremated remains of the Buddha.

According to local traditions, the first Bishop of Chur was St. Lucius, a reputed King of Britain, who is said to have died a martyr at Chur about the year 176, and whose relics are preserved in the cathedral.

According to local traditions, the first Bishop of Chur was Saint Lucius, a reputed King of Britain, who is said to have died a martyr at Chur around the year 176, and whose relics are preserved in the cathedral.

According to Joasaph the mission was successful and the relics remained in Vidin for the next two centuries.

According to the Yonok Chronicle, the That or Chedi was originally built in 940 during the reign of Phraya Ruen Kaew, Prince of Chiang Rai, to house the Lord Buddha's relics.

According to Varlaam's saint's Life, Ivan III visited the cloister and wished to see the relics of Saint Varlaam in 1471.

According to tradition, St. Donatus of Zadar brought Anastasia's relics to Zadar from Constantinople, when he was there with the Venetian duke Beato.

According to Eastern Orthodox Sacred Tradition, the apparition of Mary the Theotokos occurred during the 10th century at the Blachernae church in Constantinople ( modern-day Istanbul ) where several of her relics ( her robe, veil, and part of her belt ) were kept.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

According to their oral traditions, some time after the arrival of the Lemba with the Ark, it self-destructed.

According to the Biblical narrative, the Deluge covered the whole world, killing every surface-dwelling creature except Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives, sea creatures, and the animals taken aboard Noah's Ark.

According to the Hot Springs, Ark., Sentinel Record newspaper, Billy Purl's gold lamé XERF jacket is part of the Rock ' n ' Roll Hall of Fame's border radio collection in Cleveland, Ohio.

According to local legend in the Birecik area, the Northern Bald Ibis was one of the first birds that Noah released from the Ark as a symbol of fertility, and a lingering religious sentiment in Turkey helped the colonies there to survive long after the demise of the species in Europe.

According to locals, Noah's Ark landed at the Col de l ' Aulp, whose valley is indeed shaped like a ship ; Noah, Biblical father of viticulture, would have planted the lakeside vineyards of Talloires, which produced wines and brandy until the 1950s.

According to another legend, Noah's Ark alighted in the Takht-i Sulaiman after the Deluge.

According to the 19th-century language scholar, Johann Heinrich Hübschmann, the name " Nakhichavan " in Armenian literally means " the place of descent ", a Biblical reference to the descent of Noah's Ark on the adjacent Mount Ararat.

According to the 2 Maccabees 2: 4 – 7, the Prophet Jeremiah hid the tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant in a cave here.

According to Talmudic sources, the tent sanctuary remained at Shiloh for 369 years until the Ark of the Covenant was taken into the battle camp ( 1 Samuel 4: 3 – 5 ) at Eben-Ezer and captured by the Philistines at Aphek ( probably Antipatris ).

According to the later account in 2 Chronicles, Josiah even destroyed altars and images of pagan deities in cities of the tribes of Manasseh, Ephraim, " and Simeon, as far as Naphtali " (), which were outside of his kingdom, Judah, and returned the Ark of the Covenant to the Temple.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Holy of Holies contained the Ark of the Covenant with representation of Cherubim.

According to tradition, the Ark came to Ethiopia with Menelik I after he visited his father King Solomon.

According to Mahmud al-Alusi in Ruh al-Ma ' ani fig refers to Mount Judi where Prophet Nuh's Ark landed.

According to the Bible, the mercy seat () was an object which rested upon the Ark of the Covenant, and was connected with the rituals of Yom Kippur ; the term also appears in the Pauline Epistles, and has a significance in Christian theology.

According to the Biblical account ( Exodus 25: 19 ; 37: 6 ), the mercy seat was manufactured from pure gold, and was the same width and breadth as the Ark beneath it – 2. 5 cubits long, and 1. 5 cubits wide ; the Ark and mercy seat were, according to this passage, kept inside the Holy of Holies – the Temple's innermost sanctuary, the Sanctum Sanctorum, which was separated from the remainder of the temple by a thick curtain ( parochet ), because the ark and mercy seat were associated with the presence of Yahweh.

According to some historians, it was used as a military castle however, others claim the structure was initially used as a mosque, but during the Qajar era was used as a military post and storage facility for weapons ( in Persian ' Ark ' or ' Arg ' means " castle ").

According to the Talmud ( Tractate Bava Batra 14b and Gittin 54b ), gevil existed during the time of Moses ( approximately 1280 BCE ); Moses is described as using gevil for the Torah scroll he placed into the Holy Ark of the Covenant.

According to Jewish scripture, Noah's Ark landed on the top of Mount Ararat, a mountain in the Taurus range in the Republic of Turkey, near the modern borders Armenia and Iran.