How To Use High altar In A Sentence
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As the clock ticks towards midday, tour groups converge from every direction on St Mary's, the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin, to witness the opening of the high altar.
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Its interior is characterized by a great central peperino arch with lacunars and rosettes, introducing to the high altar consecrated to the Virgin, whose icon is painted on a piece of slate.
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The numerous chapels, from the most ornate to the most humble, constructed by popes, cardinals and pious confraternities, the high altar begun by Ferdinando Fuga and later enriched by the genius of Valadier, the Baptistery and finally the relic of the Holy Crib complete the array of splendors contained within these walls.
The Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
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In the nave of the church, over the spot where St. Peter is buried, Bernini's High Altar soars to a height of 29 metres.
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Rome, having succeeded in persuading Urban IV. that his merits and fame deserved an honour which should bring wealth and celebrity to the see in whose cathedral his body was laid; so in 1276 the remains of his body were removed from their tomb and placed at the back of the high altar in a shrine, or feretory, dedicated to him.
Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See
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Rome's supremacy in metalwork had already been affirmed when the conventual church's lavish new high altar was installed in 1686.
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Evensong was half over when the preacher arrived, and the church being full Mark was given a chair by the sidesman in a dark corner, which presently became darker when Father Rowley went up into the pulpit, for all the lights were lowered except those above the preacher's head, and nothing was visible in the church except the luminous crucifix upon the High Altar.
The Altar Steps
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There was a sacristan kindling branches of candles on the high altar; a deacon, he judged unerringly.
THE THORN BIRDS
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They who are convinced of His will, which is the law of laws, and the sovereign of sovereigns, cannot think it reprehensible that this, our corporate realty and homage, that this our recognition of a signiory paramount -- I had almost said this oblation of the state itself -- as a worthy offering on the high altar of universal praise, should be performed with modest splendour and unassuming state.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
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In Spain the sanctuary containing the high altar is to this day called the capilla mayor.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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It has a high altar with fine gilded carving and a sixteenth-century sculpture of Our Lady of the Rosary.
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It could have been commissioned by a religious house, dedicated to the Virgin, for use as the reredos of a high altar.
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Item, he is to pay the prior of the cloister six florins for his fine 56 ... and three florins to the .... 57 and he should also give five eggs per diem to the hebdomadary of the high altar, except in Lent.
Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
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What you were perhaps unable so far to discern from the photographs (which would be exactly the effect desired by Dientzenhofer) is the circumstance that the altar painting which you can see (showing the martyrium of St. Dionysius by the Bamberg court painter Sebastian Reinhard from 1714) is not actually on the high altar.
Catholic Bamberg: Banz Abbey
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One of the abbey's most famous features is the 14th century Washington Window, which is to be found high up in the choir area near the high altar.
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Immediately beneath the site of the high altar at Melrose is the resting-place of the heart of Robert Bruce, and to the south of it is a dark-coloured polished slab of encrinital limestone said to mark the grave of Alexander II., who was buried near the high altar in 1249.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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Next to these the largest masses are a circular tablet, forming part of the splendid sheathing of one of the ambones in the Church of San Lorenzo; and two elliptical tablets, still larger, engrafted upon the pilasters in front of the high altar of St. Paul's.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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The first, without doubt, is the monument of the archbishop Saint-Romain, which is of granite, and forms, if I may say so, the high altar in the choir, as the top of the high altar covers the monument, which is elsewhere very plainly seen.
Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers
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The chancel was the most important part of a church: the high altar and the holy relics were kept at the far east end, called the presbytery, and most of the services took place in the quire, where the monks sat.
The Pillars of the Earth
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I noticed in one compartment some admirable traceries in solid oak, and before the high altar an elaborate gilt-bronze lamp -- the gift of the wife of Louis Phillippe; but the most brilliant portion of the ulterior is the fresco painting.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business
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What I was particularly pleased to see was the splendid Romanitas of the chapel, with its graceful columns which lead the eye up to the central point of focus, the high altar, and even more pleased to see the inclusion of a ciborium magnum (or "baldacchino") over that altar -- which all the more highlights the altar, giving it its due prominence.
New Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary
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Ealing, our organist got married and for his wedding he had a choir and a four-piece rock band that set up at the high altar.
Times, Sunday Times
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The choir will sing from the High Altar in the Church and will be accompanied by their own organist.
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Bishops and cardinals prepare themselves as Pope Benedict XVI leads Mass from underneath the high altar's 95-foot-tall (29-meter-tall) bronze canopy in St. Peter's Basilica.
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On this occasion relays of patriotic maidens in virginal white paraded reverently before a temple of philosophy erected where the high altar had stood.
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There was a sacristan kindling branches of candles on the high altar; a deacon, he judged unerringly.
THE THORN BIRDS
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The cathedral was built, as most cathedrals in the German Empire at that time, with two choirs, an east choir for the high altar, and a west choir were the Emperor and his court would assist (remember that the Roman Emperors of the middle ages had no fixed capital, but moved from city to city; actually, Bamberg cathedral is not exactly oriented, thus the east choir is actually east-northeast, and west choir west-southwest).
Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
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There was a kind of grotto in the church, under the high altar; and in the grotto was a full-sized figure of a dead man, carved and painted -- and covered with wounds; and round that figure half the women and girls of the town were collected, stroking, kissing ...
Bertram Cope's Year
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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The painting in the dome marked the termination of a narrative sequence begun in the Assumption located in the apse behind the high altar.
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Within a dozen yards, I came to a set of iron gates closing off the steps east of the high altar.
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One night a thief broke into the church to steal jewels from the Madonna on the High Altar.
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The most remarkable parts of the church are the tower, the capitals of the fascicled columns, and the glass of the windows around the chapel of the Virgin behind the high altar.
The South of France—East Half
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A festival in a skiing resort - the high altar of the British middle classes.
Times, Sunday Times
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His chief undertaking in Padua was a new high altar for the Santo, and its seven bronze statues and 22 reliefs were originally arranged beneath a baldacchino as a sacra conversazione.
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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
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As has been noted numerous times before, in an age of free-standing altars, the ciborium is one particularly suitable way to lend presence and verticality to our altars -- something the high altar should have, and something which has often been lost in newer or renovated church buildings.
Potentialities of the Rood Screen Today
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The crown of St Wenceslas and the sacred coronation oils were carried to the High Altar from here too.
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In the walls at the two sides of the high altar, there are two elegant small choirs in red marble, placed on marmoreal portal as well, and the two Chancels with big seventeenth century organs.
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He lay prostrate before the high altar.
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The Frontispiece shows the high altar of Westminster Abbey vested for Lent in a frontal, frontlet, and dossal of white linen.
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The general consensus was the men from the Valleys would be served up as sacrificial lambs on the high altar of English football.
The Sun
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Arrived, the Queen was placed in a chair of estate in the middle of the crossing, facing the high altar.
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Next come the offering: the Queen was led before the high altar and, kneeling before a bishop seated there, kissed the paten and made her offering of gold.
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As Patrick tells it, Fr. Foy was forbidden to say Mass on the High Altar and carried his portable tabernacle on the occasions he said his private Mass.
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The high altar, composed of Mexican marble and onyx, is one of the finest ever constructed.
Six Months in Mexico
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But the high altar I could not see.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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The red sanctuary lamp glowed ahead of them, to the left of the high altar.
