Download or read book Reliques of the Christ written by Denis Wortman and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relics of the Christ written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2007-03-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious relics, defined as "either portions of or objects connected with the body of a saint or other holy person," are among the most revered items in the world. Christian relics such as the Holy Grail, the True Cross, and the Lance of Longinus are also the source of limitless controversy. Such items have incited people to bloodshed and, some say, have been a source of miracles. Relics inspire fear and hope among the faithful and yet are a perennial target for skeptics, both secular and Christian. To research the authenticity of numerous Christian relics, Joe Nickell takes a scientific approach to a field of study all too often tainted by premature conclusions. In this volume, Nickell investigates such renowned relics as the Shroud of Turin, the multiple heads of John the Baptist, and the supposedly incorruptible corpses of saints, first examining the available evidence and documented history of each item. From accounts of true believers to the testimony of the relics' alleged fabricators, Nickell then presents all sides of each story, allowing the evidence to speak for itself. For each relic, Nickell evaluates both the corroborating and contradictory bodies of evidence and explores whether the relic and attributed miracles can be reconstructed. In addition to his own experiments, Nickell presents findings from the world's top scientists and historians regarding these controversial objects of reverence and ire, explaining the circumstances under which each case was examined. Radiocarbon dating and tests to determine the validity of substances such as blood or patina indicate a variety of possible origins. Nickell even reveals some of the techniques used to create archaeological forgeries and explains how investigators have exposed them. Each relic is a mystery to be solved; guided by the maxim, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof," Nickell seeks only the truth.
Download or read book A Treatise on Relics written by Jean Calvin and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Material and the Ideal written by Anthony Cutler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the diverse interests of Jean-Michel Spieser, his colleagues, students and friends contribute papers focused on topics ranging from the changing role of the apse and the layout of late antique basilicas to holy relics said to have been brought from Constantinople. Many of the articles address the nature and impact of specific media - goldsmiths' work, ivory and ceramics - while a group of highly original, broader studies is devoted to such larger issues as ritual display in the tenth century, the metaphorical significance of pottery and an interrogation of the supposed influence of Byzantine icons on Western medieval art. Throughout, the achievement of the authors is to move from concrete observations of particular objects to the larger meaning they held for those who commissioned and made use of them.
Download or read book The Shroud at Court written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shroud at the Court analyses the ties between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, when rituals, ceremonies, and images made the relic an essential source of legitimacy and propaganda for the Savoy dynasty.
Download or read book The Church of the Holy Cross of A t amar written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the celebrated church of the Holy Cross of Ałt‘amar founded by King Gagik of Vaspurakan and built in the tenth century. It analyzes this church from multiple perspectives, such as the contemporary intellectual climate, biblical exegesis, historiography, royal ideology, patronage of relics, medieval architecture and art.
Download or read book The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics written by Robert Wiśniewski and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians have often admired and venerated the martyrs who died for their faith, but for a long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, the Christian attitude towards the bones of the dead, saint or not, was that of respectful distance. The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics examines how this attitude changed in the mid-fourth century. Robert Wi'niewski investigates how Christians began to believe in the power of relics, first over demons, then over physical diseases and enemies. He considers how the faithful sought to reveal hidden knowledge at the tombs of saints and why they buried the dead close to them. An essential element of this new belief was a strong conviction that the power of relics was transferred in a physical way and so the following chapters study relics as material objects. Wi'niewski analyses how contact with relics operated and how close it was. Did people touch, kiss, or look at the very bones, or just at tombs and reliquaries which contained them? When did the custom of dividing relics begin? Finally, the book deals with discussions and polemics concerning relics, and attempts to find out the strength of the opposition which this new phenomenon had to face, both within and outside Christianity, on its way to become an essential element of medieval religiosity.
Download or read book Relique Chr tienne written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce contenu est une compilation d'articles de l'encyclopedie libre Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Chapitres: Relique du Christ, Suaire de Turin, Sainte Lance, Vraie Croix, Saint Calice, Reliques du Saint-Lait, Saint Prepuce, Mandylion, Sainte Tunique du Christ, Saint-Suaire, Tunique d'Argenteuil, Sainte Couronne, Sainte Eponge, Saint Ombilic, Saint Sang, Saint Voile de Manoppello, Saintes Dents, Titulus Crucis, Reliques de la Sainte-Chapelle, Croix de la Grappe, Saintes Larmes, Sacro Cingolo, Suaire d'Oviedo, Sandales du Christ, Saint Mors, Chef, Sainte Face. Extrait:, Negatif du visage du linceul de Turin, 1898Le suaire de Turin (appellation religieuse), denomme linceul de Turin (par les archeologues et les scientifiques), est un drap en lin ancien qui montre l'image d'un homme presentant les traces de tortures physiques correspondant a un crucifiement, figurant certains details de la Crucifixion de Jesus de Nazareth decrite dans les evangiles canoniques. Objet de piete populaire, considere par l'Eglise catholique comme une icone et venere par certains croyants comme une relique, il est conserve dans la chapelle royale de la cathedrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Turin. Des son apparition, en France, au siecle, l'authenticite de l'objet est mise en doute: l'eveque de Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, declare le linceul faux - puisqu'il n'en existe nulle mention dans les evangiles - et en interdit les ostensions en 1370. Son successeur Pierre d'Arcis, appuye par le roi de France Charles VI, reitere l'interdiction en 1389 mais l'antipape Clement VII autorise le culte du linge l'annee suivante, tout en affirmant son inauthenticite. A partir du debut du siecle, apres plusieurs siecles de deplacements et de veneration, sa datation et son authenticite deviennent l'objet d'apres debats: le suaire de Turin devient ainsi l' artefact le plus etudie de l'histoire . De nos jours, l'hypothese majoritaire dans la communaute scientifique...
Download or read book Relics from the Crucifixion written by J. Charles Wall and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jews usually burned the crosses used by the Romans after executions but following Jesus' crucifixion they quickly threw the Cross in a ditch to get it out of sight before the feast of Passover. That preserved the True Cross, and memory of the events preserved its location. Disgusted with continued Christian veneration of the spot, pagan Roman Emperor Hadrian erected on the Cross's burial site a statue to Venus, hoping thereby to obliterate their memory. It didn’t work. Indeed, because of the statue, when the Empire became Christian, St. Helena knew the exact spot where she would find the very Cross on which Christ died. All relics from Christ's crucifixion have a similarly fascinating story, all of which are told here in this 1910 work by the enterprising Catholic investigator Charles Wall. Among the things you’ll discover in these pages: The miracle that revealed to St. Helena which of the three discovered crosses was that of JesusThe horse’s bit made from a nail of the True Cross, and the successes it brought the horse’s riderThe nails — and why there are so many in existence todayA history of the fortunes the Crown of Thorns to those who held them, and a list of towns where thorns are foundWhere, in 1492, workman accidentally discovered again the actual board on which “King of the Jews” was writtenThe modest Frenchman who saved a holy nail from profanation during the French RevolutionDrawings of the spear of Longinus, and reports of its later use in battlesRelics of Jesus’s actual blood from the Crucifixion: and why it makes sense that some still existsThe veil of Veronica, Christ’s seamless robe, and much more!
Download or read book Treatise on Relics written by John Calvin and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation, and a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. In 1543 he penned A Treatise on Relics, and their religious-historical influence.
Download or read book The Historie of that Most Famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Jesus St George of Cappadocia written by Peter Heylyn and published by . This book was released on 1633 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionnaire D arch ologie Chr tienne Et de Liturgie Publi Par Le R P Dom Fernand Cabrol Avec Le Concours D un Grand Nombre de Collaborateurs written by Fernand Cabrol and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Basilica of S Mark in Venice written by Camillo Boito and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ God and Man written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century written by Giles Constable and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together revised and up-dated versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on crusading in the 12th century, along with two major new studies on the cross of the crusaders and the Fourth Crusade, and two excursuses on the terminology of crusading and the numbering of the crusades. Together they show the range and depth of the crusading movement at that time and its influence on the broader history of the period.
Download or read book Description de la relique inestimable du precieux sang de J sus Christ que l on conserve dans la Chapelle de St Basile Bruges written by and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
