Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 790, Angilbert retired to the abbey of Centulum, the "Monastery of St Richarius" (Sancti Richarii monasterium) at present-day Saint-Riquier in Picardy. [5] Elected abbot in 794, [ 5 ] he rebuilt the monastery and endowed it with a library of 200 volumes. [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Christian relics" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... Sacred Relic of St. Stephen; Saint Mark's relics;
The reliquary and skull of Saint Ivo of Kermartin (St. Yves or St. Ives; 1253–1303), in Tréguier, Brittany, France Shrine of Saint Lachtin's Arm, 12th century, Irish. In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. [1]
Articles related to relics, objects of religious significance from the past. They usually consist of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangible memorial.
In 835, Angilbert II, Bishop of Milan, placed the relics of the three saints in a porphyry sarcophagus, where they were found in January 1864. [ 7 ] A tradition claims that, after the destruction of Milan by Frederick Barbarossa , his chancellor, Rainald of Dassel , had taken the relics from Milan and deposited them at Breisach in Germany ...
Among other valuable relics, the treasury possesses a copper cross said to be the work of Saint Eloi (Eligius). In 1536 Saint-Riquier repulsed an attack by the Germans, during its defense the women especially distinguishing themselves. In 1544 it was burned by the English, an event that marks the beginning of its decline. Abbey church, Saint ...
It lists of hundreds of saints from Ireland and beyond. [1] In various religions, a saint is a revered person who has achieved an eminent status of holiness, known as sainthood. The word saint comes from the Latin word sanctus, meaning ' holy ', and although saint has been applied in other religious contexts, the word has its origins in ...
The following list contains saints from Anglo-Saxon England during the period of Christianization until the Norman Conquest of England (c. AD 600 to 1066). It also includes British saints of the Roman and post-Roman period (3rd to 6th centuries), and other post-biblical saints who, while not themselves English, were strongly associated with particular religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England ...