Aegina obtained money for her defences by the unwilling sacrifice of her cherished relic, the head of St. George, which had been carried there from Livadia by the Catalans.

In 1462, the Venetian Senate ordered the relic to be removed to St. Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.

Athanasius ' Shrine ( where a portion of his relic s are preserved ) under Coptic Cathedral | St. Mark's Cathedral, Cairo

The relic was destined for Japan but religious persecution there persuaded the church to keep it in Macau's Cathedral of St. Paul.

More recently the relic was moved to St. Joseph's Seminary and the Sacred Art Museum.

Another hero of the Grail quest, Sir Galahad ( a 13th-century literary invention of monks from St. Bernard's Cistercian Order ) was depicted bearing a shield with the cross of Saint George, similar to the Templars ' insignia: this version presented the " Holy " Grail as a Christian relic.

St. Oswald relic receptacle, Hildesheim, 12th century

It has recently been proposed that he may have been a lay agent or representative of the cathedral chapter of Cambrai Cathedral to obtain a relic of St. Elizabeth of Hungary who had made a donation to the cathedral chapter and to whom the chapter dedicated one of the radiating chapels in their new cathedral chevet.

This relic was brought to Roskilde around the year 1100, after St. Lucius had been declared patron of the Danish region Zealand.

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.

A large relic of Saint Anthony was gifted to the Shrine in 1995 by the friars in Padua as well as copies of 13 original paintings detailing particularly important moments in the life of St. Anthony.

This relic is since then a sacred treasure in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.

The only extant relic of the saint is the arm and hand with which he wrote his Commentary on the Sentences, which is now conserved at Bagnoregio, in the parish church of St. Nicholas.

In the crypt is a relic bust of St. Donatus ( 1346 ).

From this expedition he brought back to Paris a precious relic, the tunic of Saint Vincent, in honour of which he built at the gates of Paris the famous monastery of St Vincent, known later as St-Germain-des-Prés.

While being readied for demolition in 2004, former Trustee Richard Derosier, while cleaning the attic of the once old church stumbled over an old relic cross that once hung in the old St. James Church.

The old relic cross now hangs as you enter St. James Church some 150 years later.

A smaller reliquary, with a relic of St. Vitalis, is displayed near St. Valérie's reliquary.

On his return trip, he bought a relic of St Augustine of Hippo for 100 silver talents and one gold talent.

The Priory has the care of a relic of St. Mildred that had been in the care of a church in Deventer in the Netherlands since the Reformation.

In the mid-18th century Pope Benedict XIV states that he obtained from Paris an exact drawing of the point of the lance, and that in comparing it with the larger relic in St. Peter's he was satisfied that the two had originally formed one blade.

An even older relic, Olavsspenningen or St. Olav's buckle, is now kept in the collection of ancient relics in Oslo.

In the XIV century the tiara of Boniface VIII began to be called the Tiara of St. Sylvester, and became venerated and considered as a relic.

During Pope Shenouda III's visit to Rome from 4 to 10 May 1973, Pope Paul VI gave the Coptic Patriarch a relic of Athanasius, which he brought back to Egypt on 15 May.

These communes passed because of the Great Depression and were subsequently discouraged by the communist government for being a relic of feudal China.

This was the ancient pagan celebration of Velja noc ( Great Night ), the relic of which still persists amongst many Slavic countries in folk customs of Koleda, a kind of combination of carnival and Halloween, which can happen anywhere from Christmas up to end of February.

His bones were preserved as a holy relic in the Cornish village of his name but were later stolen by monks and taken to the medieval St Neot's Priory on the River Great Ouse near Bedford.

* Cologne: four parish churches and seven chapels are dedicated to Brigid and a relic is preserved at Great St. Martin Church.

At his press conference in 2008, Semyon Gluzman said that the surplus in Ukraine of hospitals for inpatient treatment of the mentally ill was a relic of the totalitarian communist regime and that Ukraine did not have epidemic of schizophrenia but somehow Ukraine had about 90 large psychiatric hospitals including the Pavlov Hospital where beds only in its children's unit were more than in the whole of Great Britain.

Traditionally, on this day the propers chanted are of “ the Life-Creating Cross ”, since the day on which the relic was actually placed was the Sunday of the Cross, during Great Lent of 1625.

The first part, chapters thirty-seven to seventy-nine, begins with the 4th century arrival of a tooth relic of Siddhartha Gautama to Sri Lanka and continues to the reign of Parakramabahu the Great ( 1153 – 1186 ) in the 12th century, and was written in the 13th century.

* Tower 16-Watching Beijing Tower ( Wang Jing Lou ): At an elevation of 986 meters, it is regarded as the summit of the Simatai Great Wall as well as the highest cultural relic in Beijing.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

This relic radiation is known as the cosmic microwave background radiation.

In cosmology, cosmic microwave background ( CMB ) radiation ( also CMBR, CBR, MBR, and relic radiation ) is thermal radiation filling the observable universe almost uniformly.

This is the source for the alternate term relic radiation.

The Charioteer of Delphi is another ancient relic that has withstood the centuries.

In some models of broken Lorentz symmetry, it is postulated that the symmetry is still built into the most fundamental laws of physics, but that spontaneous symmetry breaking of Lorentz invariance shortly after the Big Bang could have left a " relic field " throughout the universe which causes particles to behave differently depending on their velocity relative to the field ; however, there are also some models where Lorentz symmetry is broken in a more fundamental way.

It is the Foreign Legion's most precious relic.

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Hand Grenade is described as a " sacred relic " carried by Cistercian monk Brother Maynard ( Eric Idle ) and is used near the film's conclusion to destroy a killer rabbit that blocks the path of King Arthur and his hapless Knights Errant.

Some of the helium-3 found in the terrestrial atmosphere is also a relic of atmospheric and underwater nuclear weapons testing, conducted by the three big nuclear powers before 1963.

Another theory is that the spliceosome and the intron-exon structure of genes is a relic of the RNA world ( the introns-first hypothesis ).

For his part, Kennedy thought that Adenauer was a relic of the past, stating " The real trouble is that he is too old and I am too young for us to understand each other.

Central and Western Kenya is characterized by the Kenyan Rift Valley home to two of Africa's highest mountains, Mount Kenya and Mount Elgon. The Kakamega Forest in western Kenya is relic of an East African rainforest.

However, in the extensive documents of the Templar inquisition there was never a single mention of anything like a Grail relic, let alone its possession by the Templars, nor is there any evidence that a Templar wrote a Grail Romance.

The historic Frank-Loeb house is another relic of the Jewish presence in Landau: its proprietor in the late 19th Century was Zacharias Frank, great-grandfather of Anne Frank.

Freud considered that in a neurotic ' the omnipotence which he ascribed to his thoughts and feelings ... is a frank acknowledgement of a relic of the old megalomania of infancy '.

A relic of these differences is found in emergency telephone numbers used in various countries ; the United Kingdom selected 999 due to the ease of converting call office dials to make free calls (' 0 ' for the Operator was already free ), whereas in New Zealand's 111 was selected for the same reason: 111 actually pulses 999 to the central office / telephone exchange.

The most impressive relic of their time is the remains of a fortress of refuge at Otzenhausen in the north of the Saarland.