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.

The sacristy at Bobbio possesses a portion of the skull of the saint, his knife, wooden cup, bell, and an ancient water vessel, formerly containing sacred relics and said to have been given to him by St. Gregory.

His remains, originally buried at Bethlehem, are said to have been later transferred to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, though other places in the West claim some relics — the cathedral at Nepi boasting possession of his head, which, according to another tradition, is in the Escorial.

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 ;

He also built a new oratory in St. Peter ’ s Basilica, which housed the relics of a number of saints, and convoked a synod in 732 in order to regulate the prayers and masses to be said there.

Charlemagne is said to have had the bones transferred to France, and Lyons, Arles, Venice, Compiegne, and Roenay in Flanders claim the possession of the martyr's relics.

In 756 AD it is said that the relics of St. Vitus were brought to the monastery of St-Denis by Abbot Fulrad.

His first act was to storm and sack Peterborough Abbey in 1070, in company with local men and Swein's Danes: his justification is said to have been that he wished to save the Abbey's treasures and relics from the Normans.

It is home to the Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration which houses 550 documented saint relics — said to be the largest collection in the United States.

It is said that his burial place was made known by an apparition to a monk named Edmund, and his relics were translated to an honorable place in the Tynemouth Priory in 1065.

There are also many relics attributed to Jesus, perhaps most famously the Shroud of Turin, said to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ.

An inscription of 359, found at Tixter, in the neighbourhood of Sétif in Mauretania, was said to mention, in an enumeration of relics, a fragment of the True Cross, according to an entry in Roman Miscellanies, X, 441.

weight, and Anatolius, Magister militum per Orientem, a silver coffer to receive the relics of Thomas the Apostle, who was said, after preaching in Parthia, to have been buried there.

Of his cathedral restorations, inspired as they were by the mistaken idea that a medieval church ought to be homogeneous in style and unencumbered by screens, monuments, and other obtrusive relics of the past, it can only be said that the Chapters who employed him were no more enlightened than their architect, and that at Westminster Abbey at least he accomplished an urgent work of repair in an unexceptionable manner.

King Saint Louis IX of France is said to having been defleshed by boiling his corpse until the flesh separated from the bones, not only to preserve his bones and to avoid further decaying of his corpse during the return from the Eighth Crusade, but also to obtain relics.

It is said that the relics of the Cornish Saint Neot were obtained illicitly from Neotstoke ( now St Neot ) in Cornwall and brought to the priory in order that it might have relics to attract pilgrims ; hence the name of the town.

The Empress Galla Placidia is said to have presented Ancona with the relics of Judas Cyriacus.

In respect to the relics and coins found in this region, this city can be said to be the capital of this territory during the Sassanid era.

Here Constantine is not said to be king, but a 12th-century text referring to this story, the Miracula, specifically names him as such, further adding that he gave Petroc an ivory horn upon his conversion which became one of the saint's chief relics.

Two Venetian merchants were said to have wrapped the relics in pork so as to avoid detection by the Muslim customs officials.

The answer came as Vakama received a vision: The keys to the Morbuzakh's defeat laid in the Great Kanoka Disks, relics that were long said to have immense power, but their locations were only known to six Matoran: Vakama's mentor Nuhrii, Nokama's student Vhisola, Matau's rival Orkahm, Onewa's rival Ahkmou, Whenua's co-worker Tehutti, and Nuju's occasional assistant Ehrye.

Here, in much earlier times, lived men whose relics and artifacts, dating back to 200-500 AD and the 12th century Sung Dynasty have turned up in recent excavations were said to have ventured perhaps in the area we now know as Tampi in Amlan.

This was taken to indicate that the body, speech and mind have come together to be saved as relics for the future and is common in only the highest of accomplished Buddhist yogis-exactly the same thing is said to have occurred during the cremation of Gampopa and the Second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi.