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The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is the largest thesaurus in the world. It is called a historical thesaurus as it arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, according to the first documented occurrence of a word in the entire history of the English language.
It is a term that is used only for such; it is not a synonym for a third-class relic. In 2017, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints abolished the relics of the third degree, introducing a two-stage scale of classification of relics: significant (insigni) and non-significant (non insigni) relics.
The translation of the relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari. By Radul (1673–74), Patriarchate of Peć , Serbia. Furta sacra (Latin, "holy thefts") refers to the medieval Christian practice of stealing saints ' relics and moving them to a new shrine. [ 1 ]
Relics of Jesus, a number of relics associated with Jesus that have been claimed and displayed throughout the history of Christianity. Shrine of the Three Kings (German Dreikönigsschrein ), a reliquary said to contain the bones of the Biblical Magi, also known as the Three Kings or the Three Wise Men .
The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume III. Total War: Economy, Society and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03995-7. Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War II (3rd revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
Treatise on Relics or Tract on Relics (French: Traitté des reliques) is a theological book by theologian John Calvin, written in 1543 in French about the authenticity of many Christian relics. Calvin harshly criticizes the relics' authenticity, and suggests the rejection of relic worship.
The looting began before World War II with illegal seizures as part of a systematic persecution of Jews, which was included as a part of Nazi crimes during the Nuremberg Trials. [27] During World War II, Germany plundered 427 museums in the Soviet Union and ravaged or destroyed 1,670 Russian Orthodox churches, 237 Catholic churches and 532 ...
The Peace of God was first proclaimed in 989 at the Council of Charroux.It sought to protect ecclesiastical property, agricultural resources, and unarmed clerics. [6] After the collapse of the Carolingian Empire in the ninth century, the areas formerly under its control degenerated into many small counties and lordships, in which local lords and knights frequently fought each other for control.