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.

In 1921 a bomb planted in a flower vase near the altar by an anticlerical activist exploded causing great damage to the interior of the building ( in memory of this incident, the New Basilica holds in a showcase an iron crucifix called " the attempt Christ ".

Sneaking past the museum's guards, she places the bomb on one of the exhibits, a man lying on an altar in a deep sleep.

Fragments of the bomb which destroyed the Methodist Church also damaged St Peter's Church, passing through the West window, bouncing several times before becoming embedded in the high altar.

The altar was destroyed during the World War II bomb raid on Lübeck, and fragments of the altar were stored ..

However, there are certain limitations: they may not administer the sacraments and related functions whose celebration is reserved to bishops, priests, deacons, or seminarians ( the male clergy ), namely, Holy Orders ( they may make provision for an ordained cleric to help train and to admit some of their members, if needed, as altar servers, Eucharistic ministers, or lectors-the minor ministries which are now open to the non-ordained ).

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.

It is invoked after the recitation or singing of the Canticles, and it is the only part of the services in which the congregation traditionally turns to face the altar, if they are seated transversely in the quire.

" The Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215 had spoken of " Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine ; the bread being changed ( transsubstantiatis ) by divine power into the body, and the wine into the blood.

After the Little Entrance, the arch-priest and arch-deacon conduct the bishop-elect before the Royal Gates where he is met by the bishops and kneels before the altar on both knees and the Gospel Book is laid over his head and the consecrating bishops lay their hands upon the Gospel Book, while the prayers of ordination are read by the eldest bishop ; after this, the newly consecrated bishop ascends the synthranon ( bishop's throne in the sanctuary ) for the first time.

To illustrate Protestant usage, in the traditional services and liturgies of the Methodist churches, which are based upon Anglican practice, hymns are sung ( often accompanied by an organ ) during the processional to the altar, during the receiving of the Eucharist, during the recessional, and sometimes at other points during the service.

The Doxology is also sung after the tithes and offerings are brought up to the altar.

Even at the altar of Artemis in Taurus, humans are only sacrificed, not eaten.

militissa ), Du Cange notes that still in his day ( 17th c .), the female canons of the canonical monastery of St. Gertrude in Nivelles ( Brabant ), after a probation of 3 years, are made knights ( militissae ) at the altar, by a ( male ) knight called in for that purpose, who gives them the accolade with a sword and pronounces the usual words.

The main function of the priests is service at the altar, and only the sons of Aaron are priests in the full sense.

Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

The ballots are distributed and each cardinal elector writes the name of his choice on it and pledges aloud that he is voting for " one whom under God I think ought to be elected " before folding and depositing his vote on a plate atop a large chalice placed on the altar ( in the 2005 conclave, a special urn was used for this purpose instead of a chalice and plate ).

His relics are found near the high altar here.

His relics are under the altar of San Marcello al Corso in Rome.

Agnes ' bones are conserved beneath the high altar in the church of Sant ' Agnese fuori le mura in Rome, built over the catacomb that housed Agnes ' tomb.

His remains were eventually buried in the abbey of Fulda after resting for some time in Utrecht, and they are entombed within a shrine beneath the high altar of Fulda Cathedral, previously the abbey church.

The Fourth Council of the Lateran, which convened beginning November 11, 1215, spoke of the bread and wine as " transubstantiated " into the body and blood of Christ: " His body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine, the bread and wine having been transubstantiated, by God's power, into his body and blood ".

Besides an essential gathering of family members for a banquet in memory of the deceased, incense sticks are burned along with hell notes, and great platters of food are made as offerings on the ancestor altar, which usually has pictures or plaques with the names of the deceased.

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 main altar at St. John Cantius in Chicago, as well as its matching two side altars, are reputed to be from the Columbian Exposition.

Candle followers are often found in churches on altar candles.

The Basilica di San Nicola ( Saint Nicholas ) was founded in 1087 to receive the relics of this saint, which were brought from Myra in Lycia, and now lie beneath the altar in the crypt, where are buried the Topins, which are a legacy of old thieves converted to good faith.

shows Christians having an altar of which those who did not believe in Jesus could not partake, a reference to the eternal, once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus Christ, thus fulfilling the sacrificial laws of the Old Testament.

Lucretius, in De Rerum Natura, mentions Iphianassa being sacrificed by her father on the altar of the " Virgin of the Crossways " ( Triviai virginis ) Diana at Aulis as an offering to ensure a successful voyage, in undoubted reference to the tradition of Iphigeneia.

") After this he goes to the altar, praying silently " that with pure minds we may worthily enter into the holy of holies ", a reference to Exodus 26: 33-34, 1 Kings ( or 3 Kings ) 6: 16, 1 Kings ( or 3 Kings ) 8: 6, 2 Chronicles ( or 2 Paralipomenon ) 3: 8, Ezekiel 41: 4, and others.

In 2001 Anson Rainey proposed that a two-word phrase in line 12-' R ' L DWDH-should be read as a reference an " altar hearth of David " at Ataroth, one of the towns captured by Mesha.

He cites Exodus 32: 4 – 5 as evidence: He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf ; and they said, “ These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt !” When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it ; and Aaron made proclamation and said, “ Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord .” Importantly, there is a single calf in this narrative, though the people refer to it as representative of the “ gods .” While a reference to singular god does not necessarily imply Yahweh worship, it does not rule out the possibility that it is Yahweh that the people are worshiping, as the reference to a plurality of “ gods ” would.

* Ed ( biblical reference ), an altar or related place in some English translations of the Bible

It is supposed that the Athena temple located on the acropolis terrace above it may have been its cultic point of reference, and the altar possibly served solely as a place of sacrifice.

Besides a comment by Pausanias, who compares sacrificial practice in Olympia with that in Pergamon, this is the only written reference to the altar in all of antiquity.

This type is also sometimes called the Virgin of the Sign or Our Lady of the Sign, a reference to Isaiah 7: 14: Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Such an image is often placed on the inside of the apse which rises directly over the altar of Orthodox churches.

In a separate room, Turk is getting it on with a nude woman on an altar who refers to herself as a " sacred object " ( a reference to the Church of Satan tradition of woman-as-altar ).

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.

For instance, in a pamphlet published with the intention to introduce the film in the social context to western audiences, it described Indian women as being " an altar in India ", that Indians " measure the virtue of their race by the chastity of their women ", and that the " Indian mothers are the nucleus around which revolves the tradition and culture of ages.

* The final advert in the Renault Clio's Papa & Nicole series featured Nicole ( played by Estelle Skornik ) jilting her groom ( Reeves ) at the altar for Bob ( Mortimer ) and the pair eloping in a Clio, spoofing a scene from the 1967 film The Graduate.

The film ends with a radio news report about Raplin's death at the hands of a right-wing fanatic and a shot of Manchester standing in the Jefferson Memorial, looking at the words, " I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man ," inscribed there.

The Roman Catholic Church generally does not use the " Bridal Chorus "; one diocese's guidelines regarding the piece states that the chorus is a secular piece of music, that it is not a processional to the altar in the opera, and especially that its frequent use in film and television associate it with sentimentality rather than worship.

A second room within the temple ( though not from the film ) features a large altar in the form of the ancient Egyptian god Anubis.

( Alexander Payne, the film director, was also an altar boy for this parish.

The film opens in a middle-European village still in the throes of Dracula's reign of terror ( see Dracula: Prince of Darkness ), where an altar boy discovers the body of a woman stuffed in the church's bell.