`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.

The congregation lighting their candles from the new flame, just as the priest has retrieved it from the altar — note that the picture is Flash ( photography ) | flash-illuminated ; all electric lighting is off, and only the oil lamp s in front of the Iconostasis remain lit.

It has a stage, where the altar is placed, and a background, on which the year's theme and St. Francis Xavier's picture has been prominently displayed.

Until recently, the Preclassic was regarded as a formative period, consisting of small villages of farmers who lived in huts and few permanent buildings, but this notion has been challenged by recent discoveries of monumental architecture from that period, such as an altar in La Blanca, San Marcos, from 1000 BC ; ceremonial sites at Miraflores and El Naranjo from 801 BC ; the earliest monumental masks ; and the Mirador Basin cities of Nakbé, Xulnal, El Tintal, Wakná and El Mirador.

Lykaion has two peaks, the northern one higher ( 1421 m ) than the southern ( 1382 m ), where the altar of Zeus is located.

The earth-altar may correspond to a Linear B mention of an " open-fire altar "; Linear B ( 14th-13th centuries BCE ) inscriptions also give the first mentions of offerings to Zeus and of the sacred precinct ( temenos ) near the altar, such as has been excavated at Lykaion

Nearby Olympia ( only 22 miles away ) has a similar ash altar, and both settlements held ancient athletic games.

: like the bellowing when a wounded bull has fled from the altar

In the Orthodox Church the use of the menorah has been preserved, always standing on or behind the altar in the sanctuary.

Tradition has it that as the reliquary was carried to the high altar of Dunfermline Abbey, past Malcolm's grave, it became too heavy to move.

He includes a detailed description of the apse mosaic over the main altar and gives the text for a long inscription he has written to be put on the wall under the image.

The earliest of these is Saint Carannog's mystical floating altar in that saint's 12th century Vita ; in the story Arthur has found the altar and attempts unsuccessfully to use it for a table, and returns it to Carannog in exchange for the saint ridding the land of a meddlesome dragon.

It has never been confirmed that Masaccio collaborated on that work, even though it is possible that he contributed to Masolino's polyptych for the altar of Santa Maria Maggiore with his panel portraying St. Jerome and St. John the Baptist, now in the National Gallery of London.

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.

The altar itself has been dated to about 1200.

In the hortus conclusus, Gideon ( biblical figure ) | Gideon's fleece is worked in, and the altar at the rear has Aaron's rod that miraculously flowered in the centre.

A Sanctuary with a horned altar constructed from ashlar masonry has been found at Myrtou-Pigadhes, other temples have been located at Enkomi, Kition and Kouklia ( Palaepaphos ).

*: The Adoration of the Cross, has a crucifix, not necessarily the one that is normally on or near the altar at other times, solemnly displayed to the congregation and then venerated by them, individually if possible and usually by kissing the wood of the cross, while hymns and the Improperia (" Reproaches ") with the Trisagion hymn are chanted.

From January 2008 when the church celebrated its 40th anniversary, a modern day version of Leonardo Da Vinci's " Last Supper " by local artist Nicholas St John Rosse has hung above the main altar in the church.

The cistern's position and design is such that there has been speculation it had a function connected with the altar of the Second Temple ( and possibly of the earlier Temple ), or with the bronze sea.

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.

The screen that divides the chapel was originally placed halfway from the altar wall, but this has changed.

Elijah now orders that the altar of Yahweh be drenched with water from " four large jars " poured three times ().

The priest and people then depart in silence, and the altar cloth is removed, leaving the altar bare except for the cross and two or four candlesticks.

During this period — 1446 – 50 — Donatello also executed four extremely important reliefs with scenes from the life of St. Anthony for the high altar.

The church is dedicated to the Virgin, and built in the form of a cross, consisting of a nave and four aisles — The old grand altar dated to 1628 and was built from Carrara marble wrecked on the coast, during its transit from Genoa to Antwerp.

The medieval chronicler Ralph of Coggeshall described his death as taking four days, and related that he gave vestments, jewelry, and altar furnishings to his monks, which were confiscated by King John after Walter's death.

The main altar is octagonal, with four others oriented to the cardinal directions The complex consists of fourteen chapels in various styles with numerous artistic works such as the main cupola and the main altar, both decorated by Cristóbal de Villalpando.

Amongst them were Christian mystic Jakob Böhme ( Behmen ); Johann Arndt, whose work, True Christianity, became widely known and appreciated ; Heinrich Müller, who described the font, the pulpit, the confessional and the altar as " the four dumb idols of the Lutheran Church "; theologian Johann Valentin Andrea, court chaplain of the landgrave of Hesse ; Schuppius, who sought to restore to the Bible its place in the pulpit ; and Theophilus Grossgebauer ( d. 1661 ) of Rostock, who from his pulpit and by his writings raised what he called " the alarm cry of a watchman in Sion.

In early churches, including the " Great Church " Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the altar, at least in large churches, was under a ciborium (" ciborion ": κιβωριου in Greek ), usually a structure with four columns and a domed canopy.

Coincident with this shift in approach, the bell towers at the western end of the church were somewhat reduced in size and the small half-dome intended to stand over the altar was replaced with a full circular dome over the center of the church, where the four arms of the Greek cross meet.

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.

In 1552 Giacomo Antegnati was commissioned to build a large organ for the north side of the choir, and Giuseppe Meda provided four of the sixteen pales which were to decorate the altar area ( the program was completed by Federico Borromeo ).

The four sides of the Yagna altar is also donated to priests who had done the ritual and it is exchanged by them for gold, silver, cows and other gifts ( 1. 15. 43-44 ).

Of Roman period: the Cocceia family sarcophagus, four cinerary urns, a pagan altar dedicated to Diana and an alabaster Hydra dating back to 3rd century.

One face of the fragmentary silver cover of the portable altar also recovered from Cuthbert's coffin has a similar combination of elements, with both areas of interlace and, in the four corners, a simple plant motif with a central bud or leaf and a spiral shoot on either side.

The presbytery has a high altar with ciborium, set on a marble base with three steps, surmounted by a canopy supported by four red marble columns with Corinthian capitals, octagonal pyramid in two sections held up a total of 48 columns of the same marble, very similar to that in the Basilica of San Nicola di Bari.

The dimensions of the curtain of the Holy of Holies were four ells by five ; the altar in the court covered a surface of five square ells ; and there were five pillars at the entrance to the Tabernacle.

Twining also mentions a relief plaque in the cathedral which appears to represent the coronation of Otto IV at Monza in 1209 as it was described by Morigias in 1345 and stresses the point that although four votive crowns are shown hanging above the altar, the crown which the archbishop is placing on the king's head bears no resemblance to the Iron Crown.

The church interior conserves its original 16th century main altar, with four stories tall, contains indigenous, Italian, Flemish and Spanish influence and is covered in 24karat gold leaf.

" Dr. Bell, sometime bishop of Worcester, was buried with due respect August 13, at Clerkenwell, with a sermon preached by Nicholas Harpsfield ; he was put into his coffin, like a bishop, with the mitre and other pontificalibus ; his funeral was illuminated with two white branches, two dozen staff torches, and four great tapers, the altar " < sup >( Strype, Memorials, Vol.

The height of the altar at each end was some two and a half feet, gradually rising higher to the center, which was between four and five feet high — the whole surface being crowning.

When the Venetians raided Pula in 1605, they removed many treasures from this chapel to Venice, including the four columns of oriental alabaster that stand behind the high altar of St Mark's Basilica.

The architect Domenico Fontana designed the chapel, which contains the tombs of Sixtus V himself and of his early patron Pope Pius V. The main altar in the chapel has four gilded bronze angels by Sebastiano Torregiani, holding up the ciborium, which is a model of the chapel itself.