In his history of the Donatist heresy, Saint Optatus recounts that at Carthage a Catholic matron, named Lucilla, incurred the censures of the Church for having kissed the relics of a reputed martyr whose claims to martyrdom had not been juridically proved.

The cult of Saint Columba and its relics were associated with victory in battle.

According to the epic of El Cid, the Castilian nobility led by El Cid and a dozen " oath-helpers " forced Alfonso to swear publicly in front of Santa Gadea ( Saint Agatha ) Church in Burgos on holy relics multiple times that he did not participate in the plot to kill his brother.

Saint Francis Xavier's relics are kept in a silver casket, elevated inside the Bom Jesus Basilica and are exposed ( brought at ground level ) when the Archbishop of Goa e Damão decides.

In 1993, Patriarch Alexis II visited Kodiak to venerate the relics of Saint Herman.

A crypt and relics said to be John's and mentioned in 11th and 16th century manuscripts, were discovered in 1969 during restoration of the Church of St. Macarius at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Egypt ; Additional relics are claimed to reside in Gandzasar Monastery's Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Nagorno Karabakh ;

The crucifix, " Saint Jadwiga's cross ," is still there, with her relics beneath it.

The Templars were also known to possess the head of Saint Euphemia of Chalcedon, and the subject of relics came up during the Inquisition of the Templars, as several trial documents refer to the worship of an idol of some type, referred to in some cases as a cat, a bearded head, or in some cases as Baphomet.

He was buried here, his remains later translated to Durham Cathedral ( along with the relics of Saint Eadfrith of Lindisfarne ).

The presence of relics was believed to be an important source of supernatural power that served both as a spiritual weapon and a form of defense ; the relics of martyrs were considered by Saint John Chrysostom much more powerful than " walls, trenches, weapons and hosts of soldiers "

Jacobus de Voragine gives the common account of the transfer of the relics of Mary Magdalene from her sepulchre in the oratory of Saint Maximin at Aix-en-Provence to the newly founded abbey of Vézelay ; the transportation of the relics is entered as undertaken in 771 by the founder of the abbey, identified as Gerard, duke of Burgundy.

* 2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

A public ceremony was staged to receive the relics of the head of Saint Andrew when it was brought from the East to Rome.

Saint Raphael was originally buried in New York until August 1989 when his relics were translated to the Antiochian Village Camp in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, on property of the Antiochian Archdiocese along with several other bishops and clergy.

Although the 1884 Bull of Pope Leo XIII Omnipotens Deus accepted the authenticity of the relics at Compostela, the Vatican remains uncommitted as to whether the relics are those of Saint James the Greater, while continuing to promote the more general benefits of pilgrimage to the site.

Travelling with the relics of Saint Clement and a retinue of disciples, and passing through Pannonia ( the Balaton Principality ), where they were well received by Prince Koceľ ( Kocelj, Kozel ), they arrived in Rome in 868, where they were warmly received.

This was partly due to their bringing with them the relics of Saint Clement ; the rivalry with Constantinople as to the jurisdiction over the territory of the Slavs would incline Rome to value the brothers and their influence.

It was built by Comita or Gomida, Judge of Torres, and contains the relics, discovered in 1614, not only of Saint Gavinus, but also of his companions, Saints Protus and Januarius.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Viking raiders struck England in 793 and raided Lindisfarne, the monastery that held Saint Cuthbert ’ s relics.

* The Millennium translation of Saint Edward the Martyr's relics from Wareham to Shaftesbury is observed in a reenactment.

by the Frisians, the relics of Saint Boniface were brought back to Fulda.

However, it is also possible that Eadfrith produced them prior to 698, in order to commemorate the elevation of Cuthbert's relics in that year, which is also thought to have been the occasion for which the St Cuthbert Gospel ( also British Library ) was produced.

Due to Viking raids the monastic community left Lindisfarne in around 875, bringing with them Cuthbert ’ s body, relics, and books including the Lindisfarne Gospels ( BBC Tyne 2012 ) and the St Cuthbert Gospel.

The miracles worked in Cuthbert's name during the late Anglo-Saxon period were particularly flamboyant, and the Libellus contains engaging accounts of some of these, including the miracle of the three waves ( when Cuthbert turned a portion of the Irish Sea into blood in order to prevent his followers from taking his relics out of England, see Libellus ii. 11 ), the foundation of Durham ( when Cuthbert's body, being moved across England on a cart, refused to be moved, signaling his desire to remain at Durham, see Libellus iii. 1 ), and several picturesque deaths visited upon the enemies of Cuthbert's devotees.

Among those churches to benefit in particular were: St. Alban's Abbey, which contained the relics of England's first Christian martyr ; Ripon, with the shrine of its founder St. Wilfrid ; Durham, which was built to house the body of Saints Cuthbert of Lindisfarne and Aidan ; Ely, with the shrine of St. Etheldreda ; Westminster Abbey, with the magnificent shrine of its founder St. Edward the Confessor ; and Chichester, which held the honoured remains of St. Richard.

There are further references from Durham to Boisil's book, such as a list of relics in the cathedral in 1389, and some modern scholars were attracted to the idea that they were the same, but Brown's palaeographical evidence seems to remove the possibility of Boisil's book being the St Cuthbert Gospel.

The survivors, however, rebuilt the church and continued to live there until 883, when, through fear of a second invasion of the Danes, they fled inland, taking with them the body of Cuthbert and other holy relics.

On November 27, 2004, those relics, along with those of John Chrysostom, were returned to Istanbul ( Constantinople ) by Pope John Paul II, with the Vatican retaining a small portion of both.

It was only after Oswald's bones were the focus of an awe-inspiring miracle — in which, during the night, a pillar of light appeared over the wagon in which the bones were being carried and shone up into the sky — that they were accepted into the monastery: " in the morning, the brethren who had refused it the day before, began themselves earnestly to pray that those holy relics, so beloved by God, might be deposited among them.

" The Damascene nobleman and historian Ibn al-Qalanisi in his chronicle also alludes at this time to the discovery of relics purported to be those of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, a discovery which excited eager curiosity among all three communities in the southern Levant, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian.

The crypt of the original abbey church still holds those relics, but the church itself has been subsumed into a Baroque renovation.

:" Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation — and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other — Time!

In the 18th century Leo the Great's relics were separated from those of the other Leos and he was given his own chapel.

The tombs of several saints are housed in the interior, including those of Justine, St. Prosdocimus, St. Maximus, St. Urius, St. Felicita, St. Julianus, as well as relics of the Apostle St. Matthias and the Evangelist St. Luke.

Several memorials and historical relics are displayed in Wes Point Park, the center of downtown Willoughby, to honor those that have served.

In 1836, some relics that were exhumed from the catacombs of Saint Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina, then near ( rather than inside ) Rome, were identified with St Valentine ; placed in a casket, and transported to the procession to the high altar for a special Mass dedicated to young people and all those in love.

Difficulties in adapting to the harsh discipline of the college's noble débris ( distinguished relics, i. e., teachers ) gradually developed those characteristics of anarchic disdain and sarcasm which were to give much of his verse its distinctive voice.

In a number of monasteries, particularly those on the Holy Mountain ( Mount Athos in Greece ), all of the relics the monastery possesses are displayed and venerated each evening at Compline.

The relics of saints ( traditionally, always those of a martyr ) are also sewn into the antimension which is given to a priest by his bishop as a means of bestowing faculties upon him ( i. e., granting him permission to celebrate the Sacred Mysteries ).

While various relics are preserved by different Muslim communities, the most important are those known as The Sacred Trusts, more than 600 pieces treasured in the Privy Chamber of the Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul.

Many of the stories also conclude with miracle tales and similar wonderlore from accounts of those who called upon that saint for aid or used the saint's relics.

Abbot Suger removed the relics of Denis, and those associated with Rustique and Eleuthére, from the crypt to reside under the high altar of the Saint-Denis he rebuilt, 1140-44.

Other fragments of the Cross were further broken up, and the pieces were widely distributed ; in 348, in one of his Catecheses, Cyril of Jerusalem remarked that the " whole earth is full of the relics of the Cross of Christ ," and in another, " The holy wood of the Cross bears witness, seen among us to this day, and from this place now almost filling the whole world, by means of those who in faith take portions from it.

The Erectheum was associated with some of the most ancient and holy relics of the Athenians: the Palladion, which was a xoanon ( defined as a wooden effigy fallen from heaven-not man-made ) of Athena Polias ( Protectress of the City ); the marks of Poseidon's trident and the salt water well ( the " salt sea ") that resulted from Poseidon's strike ; the sacred olive tree that sprouted when Athena struck the rock with her spear in her successful rivalry with Poseidon for the city ; the supposed burial places of the mythical kings Cecrops and Erechtheus ; the sacred precincts of Cecrops ' three daughters, Herse, Pandrosus and Aglaurus ; and those of the tribal heroes Pandion and Boutes.

The Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches commemorate Nicodemus on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers, celebrated on the Third Sunday of Pascha ( i. e., the second Sunday after Easter ) as well as August 2, the date when tradition holds that his relics were found, along with those of Stephen the Protomartyr, Gamaliel, and Abibas ( Gamaliel's second son ).

The chapel used to contain some of the most sacred Christian relics in Asia, including the remains of 26 foreign and Japanese Catholic priests who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597, as well as those of some of the Japanese Christians who were killed during the Shimabara Rebellion in 1637.

Site-specific shrines in Buddhism, particularly those that contain relics of deceased buddhas and revered monks, are often designed in the traditional form known as the stupa.

“ The pardoner conspires to set himself up as a moveable shrine endowed with relics unsurpassed by those of anyone else in England .” Yet, of course, the relics are all fakes, creating a suggestion of both the Pardoner's impotence and his spiritual ill-worth.