Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 467
preaching unaccompanied by grandreligious spectacles would have been fruitless, and thus the Church revivedthe worship of relics. Search was made in every direction for the bodies of 3 B 37° PILGRIMAGES. saints ; the bishops themselves journeyed to Italy, to Africa, and to the Eastto collect the… … Fig. 284.—Greek Panagia, or Image of the Holy Virgin, with a Portrait of Jesus Christ upon herbosom.—From the Antiquities of Russia, by Sevastianof (Thirteenth Century). transfer to the sanctuary, in which they were solemnly laid, was made theoccasion for ornate ceremonies and for numerous…
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