Into various parts of the fabric were built relics and curiosities from historical structures, such as the doorway of the old Tolbooth in Edinburgh.

Into various parts of the fabric were built relics and curiosities from historical structures, such as the doorway of the old Tolbooth in Edinburgh.

This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.

According to Al-Jalalan, the relics in the Ark were the fragments of the two tablets, rods, robes, shoes, mitres of Moses and the vase of manna.

Acts of formal recognition, such as the erection of an altar over the saint's tomb or transferring the saint's relics to a church, were preceded by formal inquiries into the sanctity of the person's life and the miracles attributed to that person's intercession.

# Other Catholic practices that drew the ire of reformers within the Church, such as indulgences, pilgrimages, the veneration of saints and relics, and the veneration of the Virgin Mary were strongly reaffirmed, though abuses of them, such as the sale of indulgences, were forbidden.

In the twenty-fifth and last session, the doctrines of purgatory, the invocation of saints and the veneration of relics were reaffirmed, as was also the efficacy of indulgences as dispensed by the Church according to the power given her, but with some cautionary recommendations, and a ban on the sale of indulgences.

The images were destroyed, and Columbanus blessed the little church, placing the relics of St. Aurelia beneath the altar.

In 1482 the relics were placed in a new shrine and laid beneath the altar of the crypt.

Columba's relics were finally removed in AD 849 and divided between Scotland and Ireland.

His relics were finally removed in 849 and divided between Alba and Ireland.

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

Once there, the relics made it known they were unhappy with their new tomb and thus had to be moved again to Mulinheim.

Sometime later, these relics and the sacred sword were moved to the current location of the Atsuta Shrine.

His relics were transferred to Constantinople in 950, into the Church of the Holy Apostles.

Part of the relics were taken from Constantinople by Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade, in 1204, and ended up in Rome.

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.

The fifth century Christian historian Sozomen claimed that the relics of Habakkuk were found at Cela, when God revealed their location to Zebennus, bishop of Eleutheropolis, in a dream.

The most sacred relics from the Roman religion were transferred from their respective shrines to the Elagabalium, including the Great Mother, the fire of Vesta, the Shields of the Salii and the Palladium, so that no other god could be worshipped except in company with Elagabal.

His relics were transferred from his grave underneath the church of Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam Chapel on Spruce Island to the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak.

Such images functioned as powerful relics as well as icons, and their images were naturally seen as especially authoritative as to the true appearance of the subject: naturally and especially because of the reluctance to accept mere human productions as embodying anything of the divine, a commonplace of Christian deprecation of man-made " idols ".

In 637 the relics were translated to the Church of St Clement in Rome.

Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a financial misadventure making polished metal mirrors ( which were believed to capture holy light from religious relics ) for sale to pilgrims to Aachen: in 1439 the city was planning to exhibit its collection of relics from Emperor Charlemagne but the event was delayed by one year due to a severe flood and the capital already spent could not be repaid.

His shrine was destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but, unusually, his relics survived and are still interred at the site ( although they were also disinterred in the 19th century, when his wooden coffin and various relics were removed ).

An important aspect in the practice of medieval Christianity was the veneration of saints, and the associated pilgrimages to places where the relics of a particular saint were interred and the saint's tradition honoured.

In 438, he transferred the relics of his old master, Saint John Chrysostom, from Comana back to Constantinople, where he interred them with great honour in the Church of the Twelve apostles.

* Relic stupa-in which the relics or remains of the Buddha, his disciples and lay saints are interred.

About the year 878, owing to the Scandinavian raids, Brigit's relics were taken to Downpatrick, where they were interred in the tomb of Patrick and Columba.

His remains were interred in St. Symphorien's chapel in the vestibule of St. Vincent's church, but in 754, when he was canonized, his relics were solemnly removed into the body of the church, in the presence of Pepin and his son, Charlemagne, then a child of seven, and the church was reconsecrated as Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Later her relics were removed to the church of St. Salvator in Moorsel, where the body was interred behind the altar.

The relics of Saint Vibiana are interred in the mausoleum, as are the remains of several past bishops, archbishops, and auxiliary bishops of Los Angeles.

Lullus later had most of his body ( except for a few sacred relics which remained in Fritzlar ) interred in Hersfeld Abbey, where he is patron saint of the town of Bad Hersfeld.

Portions of her relics were clandestinely taken by the St. Augustine Portuguese Catholic missioners, eyewitnesses of her martyrdom, to Georgia where they were interred at the Alaverdi Cathedral.

The relics of a Roman martyr, St. Saturninus, are interred in the altar.

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

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.

There is nothing in the tomb beneath the statue, the relics of the king having been lost in the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 by King Henry VIII.

Other historians dispute this, but it is thought to be the origin of the tradition of placing relics beneath the altar.

: It is fitting that the tradition of the Roman liturgy should be preserved of placing relics of martyrs or other saints beneath the altar.

It is better for an altar to be dedicated without relics than to have relics of doubtful credibility placed beneath it.

Of greatest interest at this altar is the rich coffin which lies beneath it, containing the body of St. Valentine, a martyr whose relics from the Roman catacombs were given to John Henry Cardinal Newman by Blessed Pius IX in 1847.

In architecture, a crypt ( from the Latin crypta and the Greek κρύπτη, kryptē ; meaning concealed, private ) is a stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault possibly containing sarcophagi, coffins or relics.

As part of the 1994 renovation, relics of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini were sealed beneath the altar ; Cabrini had worshiped at the cathedral while she worked in Seattle from 1903 – 1916.

In " Operation Bumbleebee, Part 1 ", Optimus mentions the vaults beneath were used to hide relics from Decepticon reach, however Optimus did not mention that Teletraan I protected them.

Pope Alexander IV ( 1254 – 1261 ), former bishop of Velletri, ordered during his pontificate to bring the relics of Velletri holy martyrs Pontian and Eleuterio to be preserved in the crypt beneath the cathedral.

The subterranean church of St Amadour ( 1166 ) extends beneath St Sauveur and contains relics of the saint.

: It is fitting that the tradition of the Roman liturgy should be preserved of placing relics of martyrs or other saints beneath the altar.

It is better for an altar to be dedicated without relics than to have relics of doubtful credibility placed beneath it.

The Romanesque church of Sant ' Abbondio at Como, consecrated in 1095 by Pope Urban II, is dedicated to him, and his relics are conserved beneath its principal altar.