I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval ( and modern ) shrine.

It is a pilgrimage centre for the shrine of the Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti and is also the base for visiting Pushkar ( 11 km ), an ancient Hindu pilgrimage city, famous for the temple of Brahma.

The tales ( mostly written in verse although some are in prose ) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales recounts the tales told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury and the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket.

The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the city's cathedral, as destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route originated in the 9th century.

The 14th century ' Life of Saint Piran ', probably written at Exeter Cathedral, is a complete copy of an earlier Irish life of Saint Ciarán of Saighir, with different parentage and a different ending that takes into account Piran's works in Cornwall, and especially details of his death and the movements of his Cornish shrine ; thus " excising the passages which speak of his burial at Saighir " ( Doble ).

The shrine of Saint Veronica in the Basilica di San Pietro

Some masterpieces of this Romanesque art are the shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne Cathedral, the Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège by Renier de Huy, the Stavelot Triptych, the shrine of Saint Remacle in Stavelot, the shrine of Saint Servatius in Maastricht or, Notger's gospel in Liège.

A possible motive, according to the second continuator of Fredegar, was the riches of the Abbey of Saint Martin of Tours, the most prestigious and holiest shrine in Western Europe at the time.

* Saint Swithun's body is moved into an indoor shrine ( he was previously buried outside ).

In art she is often depicted presiding over the baptism of Clovis, or as a suppliant at the shrine of Saint Martin.

Pelagius ordered the construction of the Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, a church shrine over the place where Saint Lawrence was martyred.

The largest Marian shrine in the world and second overall, after the Saint Peter Basilica, in Vatican City.

A more prominent shrine and altar to Saint Amphibalus were also added.

He sought heavenly aid by visiting the shrine of Saint Demetrius at Thessalonica and by building or rebuilding churches.

It is the site for the Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne shrine.

A life-sized reliquary of Saint Valérie, containing an arm bone, was brought to Thibodaux in 1868 and is displayed in her shrine in St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Thibodaux.

It was at this shrine that Edward I came to pray in 1284.

The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings, but none were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England.

England prospered during his reign and his greatest monument is Westminster, which he made the seat of his government and where he expanded the abbey as a shrine to Edward the Confessor.

The centrepiece of Henry's renovated abbey was a shrine to Edward the Confessor.

She was buried in Westminster Abbey, on 3 August, in what has been described as a " somewhat hard to find tomb " on the opposite side of Edward the Confessor's shrine and slightly above eye level for a person of average height.

Edward requested to be buried in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral rather than next to the shrine, and a chapel was prepared there as a chantry for him and his wife Joan ( this is now the French Protestant Chapel, and contains ceiling bosses of her face and of their coats of arms ).

There were also various sceptres, swords, coronets, rings and an Anglo-Saxon comb, Some of the pieces were probably reclaimed burial regalia, including those stripped from the rich shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey by Henry VIII.

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.

Under his guidance traditional monastic life began again on 21 November 1556, the abbey school was reopened and the shrine of St Edward the Confessor was restored.

Several English kings visited the shrine, including Henry III ( 1231 or 1241 ), Edward I ( 1289 and 1296 ), Edward II in 1315, Edward III in 1361, Henry VI in 1455, Henry VII in 1487 and finally Henry VIII, who was later responsible for its destruction when the shrine and abbey perished in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

She appears in medieval stained glass, and in Pre-Raphaelite stained glass by Edward Burne-Jones in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, in the chapel where her shrine is also located.

Later, in 1300, Edward passed through Rochester on his way to Canterbury and is recorded as having given seven shillings ( 35p ) at the shrine of St William, and the same again the following day.

* Henry III of England had a golden statue of his queen made and placed on the shrine of St. Edward at Westminster

* A falcon in wax at the shrine of St. Wulstan by Edward I

The chair was named after Edward the Confessor, and was kept in his shrine of St Edward's Chapel at Westminster Abbey.

In 1297 the daughter of Edward I, Princess Elizabeth, married the Count of Holland in the shrine.

It is noteworthy as containing the only shrine in Britain to have survived the Reformation with its relics intact, apart from that of Saint Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey.

Thereafter it was taken to London and presented at the shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey by King Edward I of England as a token of the complete annihilation of the independent Welsh state.

It was then presented at the shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey as the " Coron Arthur ," or the Crown of King Arthur.

* A shrine on the site of the future Westminster Abbey is founded.

Despite the example set by most of his recent predecessors, Henry and his second wife, Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, were buried not at Westminster Abbey but at Canterbury Cathedral, on the north side of Trinity Chapel and directly adjacent to the shrine of St Thomas Becket.

The original St. Edward's Crown, used at the coronation of English monarchs, was considered a holy relic, kept in the saint's shrine at Westminster Abbey, and therefore not worn by sovereigns at any other time.

According to Matthew Paris, the 13th century chronicler of St Albans Abbey, Abbot Ulsinus ( Wulsin ) founded three churches in 948, reputedly to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the growing number of pilgrims to Alban's shrine: St Peter's, St Stephen's and St Michael's.

After his death he was revered as a saint, and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.

In the 1090s, his remains were translated, or ritually moved, to a shrine beside the high altar of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury.

A statue based on a 14th century metal seal was blessed in 1955 and crowned in 1965 restoring the Marian shrine that had been in the Abbey prior to the reformation.

In 1740, a small chapel was built to house the statue but it was soon realized that the building would be too small for the number of pilgrims it attracted, and so Steingaden Abbey decided to commission a separate shrine.

In 1250 she was canonised by Pope Innocent IV, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey.

Site of the shrine of St. Margaret, Dunfermline Abbey, Fife

He died at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk three days later and was buried at St Albans Abbey, adjacent to St Alban's shrine.

Later, his grave became a shrine and a pilgrimage centre, with the building of the Abbey of Saint Denis, and the settlement was renamed Saint-Denis.

Saint Anselm, abbot of Bec Abbey in Normandy and later to be Archbishop of Canterbury, apparently visited the shrine of St. Neot in 1078-9.