How To Use Altar In A Sentence

Obama "cherishes" a trinket and a book given to him by Gordon Brown, and he worships them like tiny gods by keeping them in a little pagan altar he set up in the Oval Office. Wonkette » top
The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars
He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England. In the Wrong Paradise

Above the altar is a portrait of St. Francis de Sales, painted by a fellow convert who became a Visitation sister. Cardinal Newman at Birmingham: Liturgical Items (Part 3 of 3)
Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
When the Ministers have said the Gloria at the altar, they go to sit in the sanctuary until the choir has finished singing.
Numps has sent for me to see poor little Greek and Latin hobble to the altar, but, 'tis a million to one, if our noble baronet does not whisk you there before her. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Yet he ended his days at daily mass, even serving for the priest when the altar boy of the day overslept.
This place of sepulture is the specially erected crypt, immediately below the altar, in the Church of St. John, Leipzig.
The _saltarello_ enchants me; in this is really the Italian wine, the Italian sun. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II
Several new varieties of metalwork also were added to the old, especially the aquamanile, i.e., a vessel in the form of an animal, used for washing the hands, and the metal structures placed upon the altar; other articles assumed new forms. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
After the flood of 1966, the S Ruffillo Altarpiece underwent restoration.
The job we all loved was at Benediction, an evening service where one altar boy was in charge of the thurible.
One of the most beautiful aspects of this rite is the special way in which this second Host is prepared for being brought to the Altar of Repose, before the communion of the celebrant. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
Pope John Paul II knelt in his white robes before the simple altar.
Religion cannot protect itself from religious hypocrites, including priests who sexually abuse teenagers and altar boys. Dr T.P.Chia
It came to mind recently that it might be good to once again mention the use of antependia, or altar frontals, as a consideration for our parish priests. The Vested and Robed Altar - Symbolism of the Antependium
Then a strange quiet descends after the Gregorian chant ‘Tantum Ergo’ as the Blessed Sacrament is laid at the altar of repose.
Azel is a young man in Tangier who dreams of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. BookBrowse Previews April Books
The term garland was also technically used to signify a crown of precious metal, often adorned with gems, made for the arrangement of natural or artificial flowers before the altar or sacred image at festival times. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Latin wrangle before the Emperor and at the altars; but they spare me in this beloved retiracy. The Prince of India — Volume 02
Cadfael found something so significant in that arrow-straight progress towards the church that he followed, candidly curious and officiously helpful, and finding Rafe of Coventry standing hesitant by the parish altar, looking round him at the multiplicity of chapels contained in transepts and chevet, directed him with blunt simplicity to the one he was looking for. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
There in a window above the altar was Mary and her story, the annunciation and visitation; at the bottom of the window there was also a depiction of the donors, The Guild of Bakers.
Ebou Dar seemed to be trying to make up for time lost yesterday, not to mention at High Chasaline and the Feast of Lights, and well it might, considering that tomorrow night was the Feast of Embers, with Maddin's Day, celebrating the founder of Altara, two days after that, and the Feast of the Half Moon the following night. A Crown of Swords
With the rise of private Masses, chapels began to bulge out from the laterals of the church and altars began to be recessed against the walls.
Our workers are being sacrificed on the altar of globalism.
In the North Alley of the said Nine Altars, there is another goodly faire great glass window, called Joseph's Window, the which hath in it all the whole storye of Joseph, most artificially wrought in pictures in fine coloured glass, accordinge as it is sett forth in the Bible, verye good and godly to the beholders thereof. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
This season one Bridezilla WILL be left at the altar!
Only when he is on the sacrificial altar do they recognise each other. Times, Sunday Times
Inside, I made straight for the altar of Jowo Sakyamuni and placed my offering of fresh flowers and fruits.
The heart was placed on a small table in front of the high altar. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
Positioned asymmetrically, an ornate, 17 th-century altarpiece marks the entrance to the baptistery and the nave just beyond.
And he is, in terms of practicalities, also correct in saying that the altar is hidden behind a wall of icons we call the iconostasis. Scott Cairns: Speaking Of The Sepulcher
Their haul included golden crowns, precious chalices, tabots, altar slabs, beautiful processional crosses, dozens of fine manuscripts and his hair.
With the publishing success in France of her novel The Season of Lillian Dawes (Sous le charme de Lillian Dawes), they were bringing out her first novel, Private Altars (which will be called Sanctuaires Ardents here), this fall. Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: On Location -- Liwan
The abbat got armed men about him, and falling vpon the moonkes, slue thrée of them at the high altar, and wounded xviij. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
Gibraltar has had to set up special holding zones for cars and pedestrians stuck in stifling heat. The Sun
Here the great void over the altar swamps and swallows the tiny little Christ.
Sixty percent of megachurches always or often have altar calls in their services.
Very beautiful, likewise, are the Maries that he made on the altar-dossal, lamenting the Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
All of the rites which are normally done when a prayer is said at Mass are omitted: the prayer is not preceded by either of the two formulae that normally precede (“Dominus vobiscum - Oremus” or “Oremus - Flectamus genua - Levate”), the priest does not open his hands, the prayer is not said standing at the altar, but in front of it. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
The altar-pieces to which all this series of _predelle_ belong are unknown. Luca Signorelli
When she called a shepherd from his flocks in the green valley to build for her a bell-tower so that she might hear, night and morning, the call to the altar, the shepherd built for her in such fashion that the belfry has been the Pharos of Art for five centuries. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
To the right (here we have already seen the statues on the left on the first picture of the altar to the right) on the baldachin St. Pantaleon (look with his hands nailed to his head) and on the volute St. Christopher. Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
This money was then funneled through a series of bank accounts in Gibraltar, Switzerland and Monaco, all controlled by a London lawyer who had performed no work for the project.
Upon the stone was an engraving of an altar, upon which a sacrificial fire was burning, and before it a suppliant family bowed the knee; over this was thrown a white vestment archwise in the form of a rainbow. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
My boyfriend was an altar boy.
But, through a tawdry heap of bushes, he watched the procession and the bare wooden coffin lifted by altar boys.
The altar is located in the center of the sanctuary, and a screen or partition called an iconostasis separates the sanctuary from the rest of the church.
From that time until the pair are forever united at the altar, it grows, and with marriage it begins to bring forth the unpeaceable fruits of endless dissensions. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
The altar of his church in Bridgewater Street is adorned with the national flag.
The scene captures the moment when, during a mass in the Sta Croce in Gerusaleme Church in Rome, Pope Gregorius the Great experienced a vision of Christ of Dolours at the altar mensa (superaltar), validating theological speculations on the actual presence of Christ in the holy wafer.
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The roof's prism casts the light throughout the chapel, balancing the only other objects inside - a puritan aesthetic of elegantly austere seating, a simple organ and the barest suggestion of an altar.
I thought it fitting to share with you an image of St. Lawrence from the basilica dedicated to him in Rome, St. Lawrence outside the Walls, as well as the confessio beneath the high altar of the same basilica, where his relics are kept and venerated. Feast of St. Lawrence
First there was Mass in the crypt, with the Cross standing before the altar.
Between 1621 and 1623, three new armadas were established in Flanders, Galicia and Gibraltar to support those in Cadiz and Lisbon.
For the rest, I recall a gaunt Baptist in wood, said to be by Donatello, on one of the altars to the left of the choir; and the bronze Baptist in the Baptistery, less realistic, by Sansovino; the pretty figures of A Wanderer in Venice
‘It's not your fault,’ I said as two altar servers crossed the tile and a priest slid out from the sacristy.
The priest, deacon and subdeacon come before the altar, and ascend to the predella; the rubrics do not say that they genuflect before doing so. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
Another time, I cut altar boy practice to play hockey on the frozen pond at Mack Park near my home.
The structure was intended as a chapter house, with a chapel situated behind the altar where the family of the patron was permitted to bury their dead.
The bride's father traditionally walks with her to the altar to give her away.
It was unified with the altar, its frame echoed the architecture of the building and in some cases, like the high altar in St Peter's, Rome, was given a ciborium.
Back in Puebla, head to the Casa de la Cultura to view the indigenous and modern altar-building contest entries and visit with the artists.
They painted almost exclusively altarpieces in a dramatic late Baroque style.
He is superhigh. He hogged more of the weed than Hector and I and he is hunched like a pile of trash against the base of the altar.
Try rearranging your altar items, changing around your knick-knacks or moving a piece of furniture from here to there. Donna Henes: Sunny Suggestions For Coping With S.A.D.-ness
The song explains a lot about the situation here in Cadiz, in southern Spain just north of Gibraltar.
What they had in common was not the name adorning their bloody altars but that which they either did not know or denied: The New American
Vicki Black writes of the hard but grace-filled task of rediscovering and extending her vocation to the diaconate beyond the altar and beyond her work in religious publishing to embrace the care of her small children at home.
While it would be additionally wonderful were the Mass to be celebrated ad orientem (it will be celebrated versus populum) the use of the original high altar with its ciborium is a spectacular bit of news. Installation of Vincent Nichols to Westminster to be Celebrated at Original High Altar
The eastern windows are obscured by a vast Baroque altarpiece.
Within some Christian traditions, the altar is still a place of sacrifice, where a priest or pastor commemorates the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. Charles Howard: Deep Calls To Deep: Re-imagining The Altar Call
On the altar wall, itself, the symbolic right and left are evident in the frescoes of the bottom register.
Properly speaking, a superaltar is a small movable slab of stone, which is placed, as occasion for the celebration of the Holy Communion may require, upon some unconsecrated table or altar.
During the time when these styles of Gothic architecture prevailed that are now called the Decorated and the Perpendicular, the roof, [14] the columns, the stained glass windows, the seats, altar, tombs, and even the flooring, were filled with emblasonment. A Short Account of King's College Chapel
As W.J.T. Mitchell once aphoristically put it, ‘When the tigers break into the temple and profane the altar too regularly, their appearance rapidly becomes part of the sacred ritual.’
There is, however, one very basic problem with vin rouge - it stains the white linen cloths used to clean the chalices and drape the altars.
At my altar, I deploy cotton pledgets dipped in remover, clean flecks of old polish off each nail, then file the sides
There are two tombs in the body of the place; but none in the chancel, which is bare, except for the tall candlesticks, and the chancel rail, beyond which is the undraped altar of solid marble, upon which stand four small candlesticks, two at each end. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
An altar surmounted by an urn stands on a high podium in front of the ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius.
Flexible seating gathers the assembly in an intimate U-shaped plan around the altar in the spirit of community promoted by the Second Vatican Council.
-- Captain A. Carlton, late of the Light Dragoons, has just succeeded to the title and estates of his great grandfather, the late Earl of Castlemere, which title had lain dormant for several years, in consequence of the only son of the late nobleman never having assumed the title, and died in obscurity abroad, and we, learn that the new Earl is about to lead to the hymenial altar the beautiful Miss Vellenaux A Novel
Many religious practitioners create altars that are associated with crossed practices.
Unable to stand it, he hunched over completely, forehead touching the surface of the altar as he fought to control his cries of anguish.
Inside is a nave surmounted by a generous barrel vault supported by large but simple columns and flanked by side aisles; a transept separates the nave from a central apse behind the altar.
The superaltar bears the inscription: ‘I am that Bread of Life.’
COPS in Gibraltar are hunting a yacht owner over the disappearance of a British expat mum. The Sun
Hybrid creatures, such as sphinxes, harpies, sirens, griffons and centaurs, carved on Roman sarcophagi, candelabras, altars and temple friezes, were a direct source of artistic inspiration.
The bell tower is pointed with four miniature spires and the paired Corinthian columns and the flanking pilasters on either side of the altar are a distinctive feature.
Ever before the celebration of his mass, ere he revested him, he kneeled down before the altar, and devoutly made his prayer, weeping and piteously sighing, and oft-times as he celebrated his mass plenty of tears fell from his eyes along his face. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
The deacon ascends to the altar with the burse in hand, and extends the corporal; at the same time, an acolyte places the Missal on the Gospel side, with a purification vessel and purificator for the purification of the priest's fingers after Communion. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
TV footage from inside the Tokyo Detention House showed the trap door, the viewing room and rooms where the inmate can meet a cleric, with a Buddhist altar and a Buddha statue.
It was subsequently placed in the inner oratory where it was enshrined beneath an altar.
To thee, at thy birchen altar, with true Spartan devotion, I have sacrificed my blood. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Placed against the church's altar below the triptych with its fixed panels of the baptism, Lord's supper, and confession, the predella participates in the change from altar to table and shared meal of minister and people.
The plan of the church is essentially traditional with nave, altar, side chapel and confessional booths.
According to the history books, Carus died before the minster was built on Church Street and is buried under the new altar.
Worthy of note too was the altar arrangements beneath the gable end of what was once the Parish Church of Monasterevin.
Once we were word perfect we were taught what we had to do whilst on the altar.
Guy Buffington's church had a small spire, a hand-carved granite altarpiece, and some very fine stone columns. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
Suspended from the ceiling just behind the white marble altar, the cross is backed by a swath of deep purple fabric.
The water fountain became an altar, standing on marble pillars and graced by its own fan design.
Another possibility, however, where it is felt a gradine is absolutely necessary for some reason (and I should note I am not against gradines generally; my thinking here is simply as it pertains to temporary gradines upon the mensa) is to instead build one from the ground up which will sit behind the altar on the ground. Another Altar "Metamorphosis" and Some Suggestions
The contents of the temple storehouse as given by the 883 Register indicate a majority of ritual goods such as urns, bowls, censers, and other altar implements.
When Francesco Borromini came to restore the nave of the Lateran basilica during the pontificate of Innocent X, subsidiary altars again had no role to play.
Back in the old days of 2002 I used to think that the point was to create an endplay in which the exclusionary rule, right to counsel, and such “had to be sacrificed” on the altar of our safety. I Said I Said What I Said | ATTACKERMAN
The side altar of the right choir pillar is the altar of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (the famous Shrine of the Fourteen Holy Helpers - Vierzehnheiligen - is on the opposite Banz on the other side of the Main valley, can actually be seen from Banz and will be the subject of a subsequent instalment of this series) flanked by statues of Saints Dorothee and Margaret. Catholic Bamberg: Banz Abbey
A little after eight o'clock the sun touches the altar rock, the signal for the burial to begin.
On the leftis Dan Diffendale, research assistant, Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, in the ash altar of Zeus trench, at the discovery of a group of Mycenaean kylikes, circa 13th century BCE. Signs of the Times
The white backdrop resembles a fringed altar cloth, with small fir trees stitched in the bottom portion.
By reversing the orientation of the chapels to face the ambulatory, where noise is more frequent, he allows the worshipper to focus on the altar.
The most important specimens of Lumachella marbles are the pair of very fine large columns of L. rosea on the ground-floor of the Schiarra Palace, the balustrade of the high altar of St. Andrea della Valle, two columns in the garden of the Corsini Palace of L. d 'Astracane, and a pair of large pillars which support one of the arches of the Vatican Library, formed of L. occhio di pavone. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
Then we begin stripping the altar and the entire chancel while the choir and the congregation chant Psalm 22 antiphonally.
Despite the resounding rejection of the European Constitution by French and Dutch voters, the fact is, old Europe still genuflects at the altar of socialism and collectivism.
Now the Pope had reached the elevated altar, his green vestments reflecting the Irishness of the occasion.
Facing the altar, the reredos overwhelm the viewer's vision with rows upon rows of imposing carved saints and prophets.
The priest stood before the altar.
He received a commission for the altarpiece, to be painted for the royally patronized convent church in Madrid.
The Tenors answer "In quo salus" and the whole choir "Venite adoremus" when all prostrate themselves except the celebrant who, advancing to the Gospel side of the altar uncovers the right arm of the Cross, repeating in a louder voice "Ecce lignum crucis," the choir responding as before. More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel
_I answer that, _ First-fruits are a kind of oblation, because they are offered to God with a certain profession (Deut. 26); where the same passage continues: "The priest taking the basket containing the first-fruits from the hand of him that bringeth the first-fruits, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God," and further on Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
In addition to Christian icons, several altars had symbols from other cultural contexts, such as Native American and African figurines and images.
All that remained was rough-hewn altar made of stone.
Altar Q's stone legs are today badly spalled, for they also protected the monument's main block from the same destructive process of groundwater transpiration that left them wrecks.
We read this image afresh through the author's eyes, seeing how to interpret the crucifix which is at the heart of Luther's service of the word, as well as a constant presence in Cranach's altarpieces.
Inside a cleft at water level, as if on an altar of rock, rested an offering of ice, unmelted even in summer.
The will of the college's founder, Henry VI, specified steps and stated that the high altar should be raised three feet above the choir floor.
Having done this, they were led to the altar, made oblations there, and ‘returned to themselves.’
This polygonal stage overhangs the altar and thus serves as a monumental ciborium for liturgical activity below.
A stone altar stands in front of the tiered platform that bears the icon.
On display will be small bronze sculptures, liturgical implements, artifacts in gold, glass cabinets, altar paintings, water containers known as aquamaniles and statues.
A recent editorial cartoon showed a clerical procession in which a mitred man is being preceded down a church aisle by two young altar boys.
_fleurs de lys_; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Aisles provided space for additional altars and chapels.
It was his wont to paste up long altar-pieces of Liana's charms, charms which her father had sought to enhance by means of delicate and almost meagre fare, by shutting up his orangery, whose window he seldom lifted off from this flower of a milder clime -- until she had become a tender creature of pastil-dust, which the gusts of fate and monsoons of climate could almost blow to pieces. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
The priest bowed down before the altar.
Set on the north boundary on a decking platform with a cantilevered shelter over it, it is a single cubic mass, a pristine altar to the outdoor life under a hardwood baldacchino.
The altar, as in prehistory, is anywhere you kneel.
In two of the chapels there are some fine altar-pieces by Holbein and one of his scholars; and a very large crucifix of silver and ebony, which is kept with great care, is said to have been carried with the Crusaders to the Holy Land. Views a-foot
In truth few have worshipped at that altar and gone forth into chosen ways unmindful of her history, unimbued with her love, or untrained in stating facts — those readily correlated by one and all — such as it has been the effort here to record, some possibly through filial affection a little tinted but in the main void of any intent at exaggeration or misrepresentation. The University of Virginia
It also shows how a freestanding altar and baldachin may be used within the context of ad orientem liturgy, as well as being a further commentary on truly noble simplicity in architecture and church paraments. Reverse Iconoclasm in One Hour or Less
And before they vote at church synods on such issues as allowing divorcees to remarry at Anglican altars they must have watched it for six months, he declares.
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The cross can be seen throughout the Christian world, from elaborate, gem-encrusted gold altar ornaments to simple wayside calvaries, in handsome stone marketplace crosses, and in the basic floor plan of Christian churches. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
He referred not so much to architectural form as to dedication of three altars in one church as symbolising the three persons in the consubstantial unity of God.
Most impressive, though, was what was hanging from the ceiling directly above the altar stone.
As the bride reached the lowest step, the groom took her by her right hand and conducted her to the altar where they both kneeled on an elaborate kneeling cushion. The Wedding | Edwardian Promenade
An altar, however, has implications for the roofing of the structure and suggests that at least part of the interior was hypaethral.
Part of the work was the removal of stone flags which formed a raised area three steps high on which stood the altar.
A single altar-shaped rock crowned the summit, from which the continuation of the ridge, right and left, fell away in a singularly graceful outline, the face of the mountain being precipitous with escarped cliffs. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
The ship called at Gibraltar to coal.
They were originally gilt and the effect must have been astonishingly different, radiant and looking like a golden altar canopy.
Before he approached it a hind and her calf had been cropping the grass between the cracks of the altar-steps; all else was very still, yet had a feeling of habitancy and familiar use. The Forest Lovers
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The Stone is our hearthstone - the coven has one, and many if not all of us have personal ones on our own altars too.
The great defender of traditional liturgy could also be its critic when he thought the fog of incense was merely hiding a vacancy at the altar.
It was before the altar of this same basilica, in his Marine dress uniform, that he was married just eight months ago.
For many, "In Cold Blood" -- in which he sacrificed facts on the altar of art and showed less empathy for the victims than for their murderers -- is his chef-d'oeuvre. Capote's Small, Exquisite Gem
Leviticus 9 : 10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Now, miserable black dwellings, a black canal, and sick black towers of chimneys; now, a trim garden, where the flowers were bright and fair; now, a wilderness of hideous altars all a-blaze; now, the water meadows with their fairy rings; now, the mangy patch of unlet building ground outside the stagnant town, with the larger ring where the The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
He'd seen Jacqueline standing at the head of the table like a high priestess over an altar, a ghost in the blurry movement of her nightgown. MINUTES TO BURN
The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
The mountain was thenceforth known as Gibel-Tarik, the mountain of Tarik, or Gibraltar.
On entering the Church, he noticed pieces of stained glass strewn over the sanctuary and on the altar table.
The chests or reliquaries in which they were buried were often venerated as shrines and could also serve as an altar.
Originally used to designate the burial-place of a confessor or martyr (known also as a memoria or martyrion), this term gradually came to have a variety of applications: the altar erected over the grave; the underground cubiculum which contained the tomb; the high altar of the basilica erected over the confession; later on in the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
After this solemn function, the body was placed above a side altar in a crystal urn.
Every person and item of ritual furniture the altar with its book, candlesticks and crucifix laid out, the papal throne to the left with its honorific baldacchino is numbered and then labeled in the key below, so that viewers of the print can learn every arcane detail of this aspect of the papal mass. Archive 2009-03-01
No fire that can be kindled upon the altar of speech can relume the radiant spark that perished yesterday. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
They also painted altarpieces and easel paintings for collectors, and developed genres such as landscape.
Ancient rituals have been revived, sacrificial altars rebuilt and lunar patterns observed with increasing attention.
Legitimate businesses and banks should be begging governments to get rid of tax havens and so-called fiscal paradises like the Caymans, Gibraltar, etc.
There are within it two piscinae and two aumbries at different levels, indicating, no doubt, an alteration of level in the altar itself during the period that this chantry was in use. Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda
When the Cross has been completely uncovered, all remain kneeling, while the priest carries the Cross down to the middle of the lowest step of the altar. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
Thought of the divine incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image.
The thrums were a perquisite of my own, which I niffered with the gundy-wife for Gibraltar-rock, cut-throat, gib, or bull's-eyes. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
Also, the Seventh-day Adventist church at the back of Golden Lane was damaged when a breadfruit tree crashed through the wall and landed on the altar.
The altar's focal point on Sivaratri is the lingam, Lord Siva represented as a simple rounded stone.
The rock of Gibraltar stands 450m high, dominating the narrow strait into the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean.
Hara could close his eyes and picture the old man, white-haired and erect as he sat reciting analects of Confucious before the family altar, which housed the tablets of his ancestors and his lord. Left to Die
The Italian preference for an altarpiece focused on one painting did not catch on in Spain.
The aumbry, which is set in the pillar to the left of the altar, has a fluted bronze door.
The statue of the patron saint, Francis Xavier, oversees all from behind the altar.
It meant that Rubens had to redo the altarpiece at his own expense and add two lateral paintings.
But any doubts as to just how brilliantly Rock of Gibraltar had developed were dispelled in the Irish 2,000 Guineas when he pulverised the opposition at the Curragh.
The coffin lying before the altar was bare, except for a single wreath of white roses.
The sanctuary mirrors the octagonal shape of the building itself, and five sections of pews, each five to eight rows deep, face the center, where an octagonal altar stands beneath an enormous suspended crucifix. American Grace
Ducking altar boy practice was a big deal to someone who hung a crucifix on the wall, prayed the rosary, and considered Father James Cronin, the longtime pastor of my church, a saint.
Optional add-ons include horse-riding, canyoning, and whale-watching in the Straits of Gibraltar.
The painting in the dome marked the termination of a narrative sequence begun in the Assumption located in the apse behind the high altar.
Many Orthodox churches have above the altar, in the apse, the iconographic picture of the community of the apostles with Christ as the heavenly liturgist in the robes of an earthly priest.
Placed against the church's altar below the triptych with its fixed panels of the baptism, Lord's supper, and confession, the predella participates in the change from altar to table and shared meal of minister and people.
After the formalities, he laid his crozier, as the seal of office, on the altar.
Both pool and onyx are on a travertine block that the architect calls ‘an altar where burial occurs’.
The celebrant receives the chalice, places it on the altar, and incenses the host, while the Pope, remaining uncovered, puts incense into the thurible. More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel
Within a dozen yards, I came to a set of iron gates closing off the steps east of the high altar.
It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres 'altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the alrightness of his almightiness. Ulysses

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