Monstrance
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Monstrance
Icons are something like sacraments in materiality: they participate in what they represent and communicate the sacredness to the believer.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
While visiting a religious community at Bruges,
Joan Carroll Cruz • Mysteries, Marvels and Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints
In fact, there is only one aspect of Christian worship and community that we can trace to the very beginning. Across every generation, every ethnicity, every economic and denominational barrier the simple elements of the bread and the cup have endured as marks of Christ’s people.
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Among those fragmentary remains, bits of skull are disproportionately represented. And although the skull cups from Gough’s Cave are unusual – they are not unique. There are at least three other sites where crania seem to have been modified for use as cups. Most are from France, dating from very close to the peak of the last Ice Age, but some
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