This consisted of almost 300 pieces of objets d ' art et de vertu which included exquisite examples of jewellery, plate, enamel, carvings, glass and maiolica, among them the Holy Thorn Reliquary, probably created in the 1390s in Paris for John, Duke of Berry.

* Holy Thorn Reliquary

Holy Thorn, summer 1984.

On disembarking he stuck his staff into the ground and it flowered miraculously into the Glastonbury Thorn ( or Holy Thorn ).

The original Holy Thorn was a centre of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages but was chopped down during the English Civil War.

A 3D type of enameling where a sculptural form or wire framework is completely or partly enameled, as in the 15th century Holy Thorn Reliquary.

The interior contains the precious reliquary of the Holy Thorn, a gift of Philip IV of France.

* United Kingdom: British Museum: Holy Thorn Reliquary ( see above ), Salting Reliquary, each with a thorn

* Cherry, John, The Holy Thorn Reliquary, The British Museum Press, 2010, ISBN 9780714128207

* Brotherhood of the Holy Thorn

A famous specimen in England was the Glastonbury or Holy Thorn which, according to legend, sprouted from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea after he thrust it into the ground whilst visiting Glastonbury in the 1st century AD.

Goldsmith's work includes the Holy Thorn Reliquary and Royal Gold Cup, both in the British Museum.

* John Osborne, Jr. – Exact ( 1852 ), Coastguard ( 1863 ), Wild Agnes ( 1864 ), Lord of the Vale ( 1865 ), Bothwell ( 1870 ), Thorn ( 1872 ), Holy Friar ( 1874 ), Constantine ( 1876 ), Simnel ( 1880 )

File: Holy Thorn Reliquary base. jpg | Base of the Holy Thorn Reliquary, a Resurrection of the Dead in gold, enamel and gems

The very wealthy collected extravagantly elaborate jewelled and enamelled metalwork, both secular and religious, like the Duc de Berry's Holy Thorn Reliquary, until they ran short of money, when they were melted down again for cash.

The Holy Thorn Reliquary, 2010, British Museum Press ( British Museum objects in focus ), ISBN 0-7141-2820-1

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His collection of Renaissance objets d ' arts from the house was bequeathed to the British Museum as the " Waddesdon Bequest "; the Holy Thorn Reliquary was a highlight of the collection, though its distinguished provenance was still unknown.

Reliquaries in the form of large pieces of metalwork jewellery also appeared around this time, housing tiny relics such as pieces of the Holy Thorn.

Foliage represents the Glastonbury Holy Thorn.

Reliquary of the True Cross at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Reliquary of the Holy Crib

:* Holy Thorn Reliquary, a reliquary created to hold one of the Holy Thorns

Some of the symbolism within the coronation ceremony for British monarchs, in which they are anointed with holy oils by the Archbishop of Canterbury, thereby ordaining them to monarchy, perpetuates the ancient Roman Catholic monarchical ideas and ceremonial ( although few Protestants realize this, the ceremony is nearly entirely based upon that of the Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor ).

Empress Matilda ( 1102 – 1167 ) is the only British monarch commonly referred to as " emperor " or " empress ", but acquired her title through her marriage to Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and had little legitimacy as Queen of England.

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office speaks of Vatican City as the " capital " of the Holy See, although it compares the legal personality of the Holy See to that of the Crown in Christian monarchies and declares that the Holy See and the state of Vatican City are two international identities.

The British Ambassador to the Holy See uses more precise language, saying that the Holy See " is not the same as the Vatican City State.

* 1980 – As part of the Holy See – United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican

Other examples are Fountain Grove, Riker's Holy City and other Californian utopian colonies between 1855 and 1955 ( Hine ), as well as Sointula in British Columbia, Canada.

At the same time, he became an Arab nationalist and began procuring weapons to be smuggled into the former British Mandate of Palestine, for use by irregulars in the Arab Higher Committee and the Army of the Holy War militias.

Later laws ensuring religious tolerance and freedom, including the British Act of Toleration of 1689, the Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania, and laws concerning religion in other colonies such as South Carolina, may have been influenced by its example.

Medieval interest in Joseph centered on two themes, that of Joseph as the founder of British Christianity ( even before it had taken hold in Rome ), and that of Joseph as the original guardian of the Holy Grail.

* Waite, Arthur Edward ( 1916 – 1918 ) Complete Rosicrucian Initiations of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross ; reprinted in 2005 ISBN 978-0-9735931-7-4 and 2007 ISBN 978-0-9783883-4-8 by Ishtar Publishing, Burnaby, British Columbia ; renamed in 2008 Rosicrucian Rites and Ceremonies of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross by Founder of the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn Arthur Edward Waite ISBN 978-0-9783883-4-8 book description from Ishtar Publishing

Members of the Arab League-Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Transjordan, the Holy War Army and the Arab Liberation Army, marched their forces into what had the previous day ceased to be the British Mandate for Palestine.

* Historia Anglorum 1250-9 British Library MS Royal 14. C. VII, 358 x 250 mm, ff 232, also the last volume of the Chronica Majora, and various other items, including maps of the Holy Land and the British Isles, an itinerary from London to Apulia, a full-page Virgin and Child with Matthew Paris kneeling before them ( illustration above, his most monumental work ), and a genealogy of the Kings of England with seated portraits.

Vergennes faced an immediate challenge, as the British were planning to have an Austrian candidate Archduke Joseph elected as King of the Romans, a position that designated the next Holy Roman Emperor.

His teachings included the interpretation of biblical prophecy in light of British Israelism, and required observance of parts of the covenant Law including seventh-day Sabbath, dietary prohibitions, and the covenant law " Holy Days ".

They toured the British Empire, accompanied by Dalton, visiting the Americas, the Falkland Islands, South Africa, Australia, Fiji, the Far East, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Egypt, the Holy Land and Greece.

* Santa Cruz ( Indefatigable ) Island ( Galápagos ) – Given the name of the Holy Cross in Spanish, its English name derives from the British vessel HMS Indefatigable.

The 17th and 18th century British and Anglo-American literature commonly drew a distinction between " High Dutch "— referring to the German language or to German-speakers from the Holy Roman Empire — and the " Low Dutch "— referring to the Dutch language of the Netherlands.

In a particular scene between Delacroix and New York radio talk show host Imhotep Gary Byrd ( who plays himself ) discussing critics and art, Delacroix makes a reference to the controversy surrounding the Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999 where then-current Mayor Rudy Giuliani issued a lawsuit against British artist Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary.

In it, the First French Republic and Prussia had stipulated that the latter would ensure the Holy Roman Empire's neutrality in all the latter's territories north of the demarcation line of the river Main, including the British continental dominions of the Electorate of Hanover and the Duchies of Bremen-Verden.