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On 10 August 1239, the king deposited 29 relics in Villeneuve-l'Archevêque. On 19 August 1239, the relics arrived in Paris. Wearing a simple tunic and with bare feet, the King placed the Crown of Thorns and other relics in the palace chapel in a structure he commissioned. During the French revolution, the relics were stored in the National ...
The veneration of saints and their relics has its origins in early Christianity by means of honoring martyrs. [3] [4] The earliest attestion is Polycarp's martyrdom in 156 A.D. described in the 2nd century The Martyrdom of Polycarp, whose bones were called "more valuable than precious stones and finer than refined gold" by the Smyrnaean church and were kept to recall and celebrate the ...
Third-class relics: any object that has been in contact with a first- or second-class relic. [44] Most third-class relics are small pieces of cloth, though in the first millennium oil was popular; the Monza ampullae contained oil collected from lamps burning before the major sites of Christ's life, and some reliquaries had holes for oil to be ...
Oarfish are large and extremely long pelagic lampriform fish belonging to the small family Regalecidae. [1] Found in areas spanning from temperate ocean zones to tropical ones, yet rarely seen, the oarfish family contains three species in two genera. [2]
Gefilte fish (/ ɡ ə ˈ f ɪ l t ə f ɪ ʃ /; from Yiddish: געפֿילטע פֿיש, German: Gefüllter Fisch / Gefüllte Fische, lit. "stuffed fish") is a dish made from a poached mixture of ground deboned fish, such as carp, whitefish, or pike. It is traditionally served as an appetizer by Ashkenazi Jewish households.
Arthur Weasley owned a 1960 Ford Anglia 105E that he subsequently enchanted; consequently, the vehicle can fly, become invisible, and carry the entire Weasley family in spite of its formerly non-enchanted interior dimensions (also the Undetectable Extension Charm), among other abilities. The enchantment placed on the car also made it semi-sentient.
Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [2]The turbot (English: / ˈ t ɜːr b ə t / TUR-bət, French: .; [3] Scophthalmus maximus) is a relatively large species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae.
The black ghost knifefish is a weakly electric fish as a result of the electromotor and electrosensory systems it possesses. [3] While some fish can only receive electric signals, the black ghost knifefish can both produce and sense the electrical impulses. [7]