Following an education in a strict religious and ethical environment as an altar boy at the vicarage of Jimpley, he became a rather isolated, independent and disciplined person, and acquired a knowledge and an appreciation for the scientific method in a practical world.

The young Jerzy even served as an altar boy in a local church.

Eugenio and the other children made their first communion at this church and Eugenio served there as an altar boy from 1886.

Giuliano was an altar boy of his uncle Pope Sixtus IV ( Francesco della Rovere ).

He was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy.

These children were raised to be nominal Roman Catholics, attending mass at the Church of Saint-Porchair, and while Michel briefly became an altar boy, none of the family were particularly devout.

Martin grew up in a Roman Catholic home and was an altar boy throughout his childhood.

Jimmy Durante served as an altar boy at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, known as the Actor's Chapel.

Serving as an altar boy when young, he attended a seminary for a year, intending to become a priest.

He was an altar boy in Brighton, and was sent to the Xavierian College, but he ran away from it.

Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, and called it " the most violent film I have ever seen ", also reflecting on how the movie personally impacted him as a former altar boy.

He was an altar boy, and a regular attender at chapel, and during his time there spent a summer in the Gaeltacht to improve his Irish language skills.

Throughout his life Frank is repeatedly put down due to his social stature, for example he is denied the position of altar boy despite his obvious intellectual superiority.

As a child, he served as an altar boy at the Holy Ghost Church.

Looking at an altar boy, Kane momentarily sees a Vietnamese boy, but he dispels the illusion with difficulty.

Though Bazin is unwilling to help, d ' Artagnan is able to find out, through an altar boy, that Bazin makes frequent visits to Noisy.

Ruiz served as an altar boy at the convent of Binondo church.

On October 19, 2006 the Sarasota Herald-Tribune stated that a Catholic priest named Anthony Mercieca told the newspaper about an intimate two-year relationship he had with Foley when the congressman was a teenage altar boy living in Lake Worth, Florida.

White eventually became an altar boy, which landed him an uncredited role in the 1987 movie The Rosary Murders, filmed mainly at Holy Redeemer parish in southwest Detroit.

Both his parents were devout Catholics and, as an altar boy, Savio was planning to become a priest.

He becomes an altar boy, and he is exposed to father-daughter incest.

He was an altar boy at St. Kevin's Church, Harrington Street and studied the violin at the Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.

Mitchell was raised a Maronite Catholic and in his childhood served as an altar boy at St. Joseph's Maronite Church in Maine.

Other monuments that have left almost nothing visible to the present day are the Chalkotheke, the Pandroseion, Pandion's sanctuary, Athena's altar, Zeus Polieus's sanctuary and, from Roman times, the circular temple of Augustus and Rome.

Modern Roman Catholic churches often have a crucifix above the altar on the wall ; for the celebration of Mass, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church requires that, " on or close to the altar there is to be a cross with a figure of Christ crucified ".

The Roman Catholics ( Franciscans ) have an altar to the side, The Chapel of the Nailing of the Cross ( 11th Station of the Cross ).

* 1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $ 23. 4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

* 1054 – Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy.

The name of Mars Thingsus ( Thincsus ) is found in an inscription on an 3rd century altar from the Roman fort and settlement of Vercovicium at Housesteads in Northumberland, thought to have been erected by Frisian mercenaries stationed at Hadrian's Wall.

Several names for the site are used in the early records, including Chesters on Caudley, Little Chesters, the Bower, and Chesterholm ; the altar found in 1914 confirmed that the true Roman name for the site was " Vindolanda ", which had been in dispute as one early source referred to it as " Vindolana ".

The result is that the Cathedral reflects a hodgepodge of architectural styles, with a Gothic nave, a Romanesque crossing under the dome ; chapels in French, English and Spanish Gothic styles, as well as Norman and Byzantine ; Gothic choir stalls, and Roman arches and columns separating the high altar and ambulatory.

According to inscriptions, there was a temple of Jupiter, a temple of Apollo Augustus and an altar to the goddess of horses Epona, who was popular in the Roman military and of Celtic origin.

This symbol of power on earth was transformed and utilised within the Christian basilicas when the Roman Empire of the West was on its last legs: The arch was set before the altar to symbolize the triumph of Christ and the after life.

In the Roman Catholic, some Lutheran, and High Anglican rites, a crucifix ( not necessarily the one which stands on or near the altar on other days of the year ) is ceremoniously unveiled.

A Roman Catholic or Anglican of the Anglo-Catholic party would find its elements familiar, in particular the use of the sign of the cross, kneeling for prayer and the Eucharistic Prayer, bowing to the processional crucifix, kissing the altar, incense ( among some ), chanting, and vestments.

Entombed at the foot of the altar are the remains of eight Franciscan priests ( listed in order of interment ): Father Miguel Sánchez, Father Antonio Cruzado, Father Francisco Dumetz, Father Roman Ulibarri, Father Joaquin P. Nuez, Father Gerónimo Boscana, Father José Bernardo Sánchez, and Father Blas Ordaz.

In response, Paul destroyed the Roman altar in the palace of Placidia and exiled or imprisoned the papal nuncios.

Roman Catholic sources claim many miraculous and supernatural properties for the image such as that the tilma has maintained its structural integrity over nearly 500 years, while replicas normally last only about 15 years before suffering degradation ; that it repaired itself with no external help after a 1791 ammonia spill that did considerable damage, and that on 14 November 1921 a bomb damaged the altar, but left the icon unharmed.

Since the revival of concelebration in the West, the Roman Missal recommends that in new churches there should be only one altar, " which in the gathering of the faithful will signify the one Christ and the one Eucharist of the Church.

" But most existing Western churches, whether Roman Catholic or Anglican, may have a high altar in the main body of the church, with one or more adjoining chapels, each with its own altar, at which the Eucharist may be celebrated on weekdays.

The present rules regarding the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite liturgy declare a free-standing main altar to be " desirable wherever possible.

Such altars are found in Roman Catholic churches awaiting restructuring from an arrangement in which a priest celebrated Mass at a remote high altar, usually facing away from them, to one in which he is closer to the congregation and generally facing them.

: It is fitting that the tradition of the Roman liturgy should be preserved of placing relics of martyrs or other saints beneath the altar.