As distinguished from a temple, a shrine usually houses a particular relic or cult image, which is the object of worship or veneration, or is constructed to set apart a site which is thought to be particularly holy, as opposed to being placed for the convenience of worshippers.

The Bull Inn had the added bonus of being near the church where pilgrims could worship a relic of Saint Cyriacus.

Sir James George Frazer found in the figure of the May Queen, a relic of tree worship:

His themes were the papacy, its origin and policy ; the jubilees ; saint and relic worship, and the like.

Kalinga had become Buddhist and begun to worship the Sacred Tooth relic.

The " Black Christ " of Otatitlán is a sacred relic, the focus of ritual worship among Mexico's Roman Catholics.

The canons welcomed pilgrims en route to Winchester, who came to worship Mottisfont's relic, said to be the finger of St John the Baptist

In anterior Epic Age, Kumuda was the name given to high table-land of the Tartary located to north of the Himalaya range from which the Aryan race may have originally pushed their way southwards into Indian peninsula and preserved the name in their traditions as a relic of old mountain worship ( Thompson ).

Another relic from the Middle Ages in Modena is the Preda Ringadora, a rectangular marble stone next to the palace porch, used as a speakers ' platform, and the statue called La Bonissima (" The Very Good "): the latter, portraying a female figure, was erected in the square in 1268 and later installed over the porch.

Sir John Mandeville declared in 1357 that he had seen the blade of the Holy Lance both at Paris and at Constantinople, and that the latter was a much larger relic than the former ; it is worth adding that Mandeville is not generally regarded as one of the Middle Ages ' most reliable witnesses, and his supposed travels are usually treated as an eclectic amalgam of myths, legends and other fictions.

The pilgrims saw the purchasing of a relic as a means, in a small way, to bring the shrine back with him or her on returning home, since during the Middle Ages the concept of physical proximity to the " holy " ( tombs of saints or their personal objects ) was considered extremely important.

As far as is known the book remained at Durham for the remainder of the Middle Ages, until the Dissolution, kept as a relic in three bags of red leather, normally resting in a reliquary, and there are various records of it being shown to visitors, the more distinguished of which were allowed to hang it round their neck for a while.

" It is of course possible that this torc long pre-dated the reign of Prince Cynog and was a much earlier relic that had been recycled during the British Dark Ages to be used as a symbol of royal authority.

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

All points of the local sky at that era were brighter than the circle of the sun, due to the high temperature of the universe in that prehistoric era ; and we have seen that most light rays will terminate not in a star but in the relic of the Big Bang.

One interesting relic of the newer independent cities is that, in some cases, the government administrative buildings ( docheong ) of the provinces they were once a part of are still located within city boundaries, meaning that these provinces have capitals that are not within their borders.

Pagodas were vandalised, monks beaten, the cremated remains of Quảng Đức, which included his heart, a religious relic, were confiscated.

The Lebak relic inscriptions, found in lowland villages on the edge of Ci Danghiyang, Munjul, Pandeglang, Banten, were discovered in 1947 and contains 2 lines of poetry with Pallawa script and Sanskrit language.

To be on the safe side however, all Catholic objects were removed from the church ; including the most important relic, Sint Jeroen ’ s skull.

By 1885, the Liberty Bell was internationally recognized as a symbol of freedom, and as a treasured relic of Independence, and was growing still more famous as versions of Lippard's legend were reprinted in history and school books.

Exceptions occur in un-glaciated Siberia and Alaska where the present depth of permafrost is a relic of climatic conditions during glacial ages where winters were up to colder than those of today.

For some time during the later 19th and early 20th centuries, Marken and its inhabitants were the focus of considerable attention by folklorists, ethnographers and physical anthropologists, who regarded the small fishing town as a relic of the traditional native culture that was destined to disappear as the modernization of the Netherlands gained pace.

His relics were kept in Zadonsk, and due to the reports of the many miracles that occurred near his relic he was made a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1861.

Of it he says, " it is most like to gold in weight, nature, and colour ; it is in four pieces wrought round, joined together artificially, and clefted as it were in the middle, with a dog's head, the teeth standing outward ; it is esteemed by the inhabitants so powerful a relic, that no man dares swear falsely when it is laid before him.

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.

A non-sentient Motie caste bred as a food supply, they were kept in museums and zoos as a relic of an earlier time, and in case they become necessary again in another crisis cycle.

The remains of the vandalised relic were taken to St Mary ’ s Churchyard by a mason who told Mr Millett that he " popped St Raffidy into a wheelbarrow and trundle him off to the chapel yard.

The Stains were frequently referenced by notable participants in the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s which helped to generate further interest in this otherwise forgotten punk relic.

Cloth soaked in his blood and other remains were distributed as national relic.

Reminders of the Buddha, cetiya, were divided up into relic, spatial, and representational memorials.

The Sherbs were now in a position where the US listening public were largely indifferent to their releases, and – despite their newer, more contemporary sound – the Australian audience had seemingly written them off as a relic of the 1970s.

The latter is a grammatical relic from the time of the mathematician, where the names of people were also declined ( the-e ending indicates the dative case ), so the name " Ries " had the ending "- e " added when used in the German expression " nach Adam Riese ", which is still used today.

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.

Firstly, to reflect the hope and belief that he would live to celebrate his 100th birthday in 2030 ; secondly, and more importantly, to break free of the widespread practice of naming conventions that he saw as rooted in a collectivist mentality, and existing only as a relic of humankind's tribalistic past.

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.

This lone relic was reburied in 1642 with a new marker, which was replaced 100 years later with a more elaborate monument.

Again, an item more important in the saint's life is thus a more important relic.

( This oblique case is a relic of the original, more complex proto-Slavic system of noun cases, and there are remnants of other cases in Bulgarian, such as the vocative case of direct address.

One theory is that the Brahui are a relic population of Dravidians, surrounded by speakers of Indo-Iranian languages, remaining from a time when Dravidian was more widespread.

New reliquaries were provided for the relic, one commissioned by Napoleon, another, in jewelled rock crystal and more suitably Gothic, was made to the designs of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc.

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.

A relic of the saint preserved in the church linked it the more strongly and in modern times occasioned its listing in 1998 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO among the sites and structures marking the chemins de Compostelle, the pilgrimage routes in France that led like tributaries of a great stream headed towards Santiago in the northwest of Spain.

The area surrounding the ' dead ' rivers is known for its historical significance and is a relic of a type of historical dyke landscape that is more and more becoming rare in The Netherlands.

Also, the energy density includes a very small fraction (~ 0. 01 %) in cosmic microwave background radiation, and not more than 0. 5 % in relic neutrinos.

Considering the fact that mechanical watches are almost never used for real timekeeping and navigation anymore, and that practically any quartz watch is vastly better in accuracy, certification may be considered a historic relic by some, but it verifies the accuracy and quality of a mechanical movement ( though quartz is almost always more accurate, mechanical movements are preferred by some watch collectors / enthusiasts ).

It is more generally believed nowadays that the skull is in fact a prehistoric relic showing evidence of trepanation.

“ The judge's wig, however, is more than a mere relic of antiquated professional dress.

Unfortunately, from the classical standpoint investigative work is viewed upon as having difficulty to interpret ; data with no end product isolating power and then man, as either in a position of interpretation by the classical theorists as the final conclusion or man having anthropological characteristics with ancient relic features borrowed from the Pleistocene era which have never altered with additional evolutionary, cultural and biological salient features rather than having a real historical and social character involved. Or to investigate critically this power, with man and his involvement with his interactions with the environment making it impossible to have any rigorous explanation or conclusions. Political systems, or knowledge systems in general, from the classical perspective, become too large to be comprehended interpreting the environment of man as an anachronism ; information and data produced surrounding man as poorly understood viewing historical information as having no, or absence of history. Obviously from the classical point of view, modern research methods ( all from " Social sciences, Sociology, Humanities ") cannot be used to penetrate observation leaving gaps in our knowledge and an accepted taken for granted approach to any analysis. Foucault views this as the exact opposite of rational analysis, with its operations ( power ) as nothing more than a series of contingencies and networks.

What in our analysis we might express as the thought that progress is evil or sinful, would, in the mind of Aeschylus, Abercromer comments, ' more likely be a shadowy relic of loyalty to the tribe ' - a vague fear of anything that might weaken social solidarity.

In due course in the spring of 1978 the car, splendidly restored, with Minister Gerry Collins on hand, was unveiled to the public in its more mature role as an archaeological relic.

In the pilaster strip dividing the first chapel from the second ond the left there is a footprint of the Redeemer, made of Carrara marble, and, according to the tradition, it is a relic dating back to the period of the Crusades, but it is likely more recent.