In it he gathered a large library, a collection of ancient furniture, arms and armour, and other relics and curiosities, especially connected with Scottish history, notably the Celtic Torrs Pony-cap and Horns and the Woodwrae Stone, all now in the Museum of Scotland.

The relics are now enshrined in the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George in the Fanar.

After his death he was taken back to Pontigny Abbey, where his main relics are now found in a baroque reliquary tomb dating to the 17th century.

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.

Many former fortresses are located along the river and the former capital of that kingdom was situated at what is now the medium-sized city of Ji ' an, China along the Yalu, a site rich in Goguryeo era relics.

It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.

The Sainte-Chapelle or ' Holy Chapel ', in the courtyard of the royal palace on the Île de la Cité ( now part of a later administrative complex known as La Conciergerie ), was built to house Louis IX's collection of relics of Christ, which included the Crown of Thorns, the Image of Edessa and some thirty other items.

However they are now known to possess mitochondrial relics, called mitosomes.

The Utraquist churches had retained the use of relics and images in church, but Scultetus now launched an iconoclastic crusade against images: beginning on 21 December 1619, images were removed from St. Vitus Cathedral, and on 27 – 28 December, a famous altarpiece by Lucas Cranach the Younger depicting the Virgin Mary was destroyed.

An even older relic, Olavsspenningen or St. Olav's buckle, is now kept in the collection of ancient relics in Oslo.

Apart from the lodges on Euston Road and statues now on the forecourt, few relics of the old station survive.

Buddha relics from Kanishka's stupa in Peshawar, Pakistan, now in Mandalay, Burma ( Teresa Merrigan, 2005 )

In 638, Torcello became the bishop ’ s official see for more than a thousand years and the people of Altinum brought with them the relics of Saint Heliodorus, now the patron saint of the island.

It is now a major tourist attraction and contains important holy relics of the Muslim world, including Muhammed's cloak and sword.

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.

These surviving relics are now housed in Mandalay, Burma.

Being very weak, he was baptised soon after his birth in the Ćelije monastery, where his relics are now resting.

Lust for these relics once brought about the downfall of the powerful Minotaur kingdom and their evil influence now threatens the kingdoms of Man.

The recovered relics are now in the Museum for Palatinate History at Speyer.

Vecchietta's Arliquiera, a painted wardrobe for holy relics painted by Vecchietta was placed in the Old Sacristy of Santa Maria della Scala in 1445, but is now in the National Picture Gallery of Siena.

These works have proved invaluable as preserving the record of important antiquarian relics which have now perished.

The first floor is now a museum, full of relics of the history of Winchelsea, the Corporation, and a model of the town.

The visible relics of the railway's presence today are the Railway public house and micro-brewery, and the old embankment which is now a footpath.

Buddha relics are enshrined in the chedi, in the surrounding chapels are several Buddha statues in Srivijaya style as it was labeled by Prince Damrong in his Collected Inscriptions of Siam, is now attributed to Wat Hua Wiang in Chaiya.

The older pieces of the museum collection, consisting of primarily religious themes, are Haarlem relics from the Reformation, when all Roman Catholic art was formally seized by the city council in 1648.

They were met with a procession showing off the city's immense wealth consisting of Asian Elephants, gold, jewels, silk, exotic snakes, bouquets of tropical flowers, chanting monks, Buddhist treasures and relics, music, and beautiful women.

They were met with a procession showing off the city's immense wealth consisting of Asian Elephants, gold, jewels, silk, exotic snakes, bouquets of tropical flowers, chanting monks, Buddhist treasures and relics, music, and beautiful women.

The principal relics of the martyr – that is to say, the head, the legs, the arms, and the part in which they suffered – were to be exposed only in the churches, and they were not to be given to private persons, but only to princes and high prelates ; and even to them but rarely, lest the too great profusion should deprive relics of the respect which they ought to inspire.

As a general rule only clergy will touch relics in order to move them or carry them in procession, however, in veneration the faithful will kiss the relic to show love and respect toward the saint.

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.

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.

A number of other relics of the Nazi era can still be found in the area, although only a few of them are still well preserved.

" I can complain that by the way we could scarce see a dog, crow, kite, raven or any other bird, or anything to anatomize, only some few miserable people, the relics of the war and the plague where famine had made anatomies before I came.

" Kissing the Cross brings blessing and happiness ; people kiss the image of Our Lady and the pictures and statues of saints — not only their pictures, " but even their relics are kissed ," notes Nyrop.

The legend that Joseph of Arimathea retrieved certain holy relics was introduced by the French poet Robert de Boron in his 13th-century version of the grail story, thought to have been a trilogy though only fragments of the later books survive today.

The brief settlement at Sorrento achieved little and left only a few relics for modern tourists to observe.

For the patrons, such chapels served not only as public expressions of personal piety but also as valuable diplomatic tools, encouraging important visitors to come and venerate their relics and showing their connection to the French crown.

Monks throughout the realm were concerned for the safety of not only their religious houses, but their practices and relics.

They declared Christ to be the Son of God only through grace like other prophets, and that the bread and wine of the eucharist were not physically transformed into flesh and blood ; that the last judgment would be executed by God and not by Jesus ; that the images and the cross were idols and the veneration of saints and relics idolatry.

This Brick Gothic construction is one of the relics of Lübeck ’ s medieval city fortifications and the only remaining city gate, except for the Citadel Gate (" Burgtor ").

In several senses, the only significant export on which the economy of the Latin Empire had any real basis was the sale of relics back to Western Europe which had been looted from Greek churches.

The Alliance hastily sent a secret scientific mission to study the relics, but a massive Hierarchy's offensive forced the Alliance fleets to retreat beyond Vela ; the mission commander, Captain Burton, decided to go into hiding on the planet and sent back the Tobermoon, her only starship, asking for help.

Mosaics about St Mark relics ’ stories are in the lunettes of the lateral portals ; the first on the left is the only one in the façade preserved from the 13th century.

The stupa is the oldest Buddhist religious monument and was originally only a simple mound of mud or clay to cover relics of the Buddha ( cetiya ).

In reference to the rhetoric included in the Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, the NCLR quoted journalist Gustavo Arellano who commented in a Los Angeles Times op-ed article ,“ few members take these dated relics of the 1960s seriously, if they even bothered to read them .” Within the article, Arrallano also noted that all of the MEChA members of his class graduated from college and have gone on to successful careers, a rarity at a time when only 12 % of Latinos have a college degree.

Certain relics are only equipable by riders.

Some relics, such as purported remnants of the Crown of Thorns, receive only a modest number of pilgrims, others such as the Shroud of Turin ( which is associated with an approved Catholic devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus ) receive millions of pilgrims, which in recent years have included Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.

Wearing only a simple tunic and with bare feet, assisted by his brother, took the Crown of Thorns to Notre-Dame de Paris before placing the relics in the palace chapel.