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Shriners International, formally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (AAONMS), is an American Masonic society.Founded in 1872 in New York City, it is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and has over 200 chapters across nine countries, with a global membership of nearly 1.7 million "Shriners". [1]
The earliest and still iconic pilgrim 'badge' was the scallop shell worn by pilgrims to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela. Along with badges, vendors at holy sites sold ampullae , small, tin vessels designed to carry holy water or oil from the site.
Shrine is a 1983 horror novel by English writer James Herbert, exploring themes of religious ecstasy, mass hysteria, demonic possession, faith healing and Catholicism.
A Richard Caister pilgrim badge. Richard Caister (mid-1300s – 4 April 1420) was an English priest and poet in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and was the confessor to the English mystic Margery Kempe. After his death in 1420 his burial place in Norwich became a pilgrimage site.
Tudor English pilgrim badge with "M" for Mary. For centuries, England has been known as 'Our Lady's Dowry'. Anglo-Saxon England sheltered many shrines to the Virgin Mary: shrines were dedicated to her at Glastonbury in 540, Evesham in 702, Tewkesbury in 715, Canterbury in 866, Willesden in 939, Abingdon before 955, Ely in 1020, Coventry in 1043, York in 1050, and Walsingham in 1061.
At Leah's funeral, members of the Gwinnett Shrine Club attended the ceremony and paid $500 to help with funeral expenses. Richard and Judy Burke, Imperial Potentate and First Lady of Shriners ...
The Soiscél Molaisse (/ ˈ s iː ʃ ˌ k ɛ l ˌ m ɒ ˈ l æ ʃ / SEESH-kel mo-LASH; [1] 'Gospel of St. Molaisse') [2] is an Irish cumdach (a type of ornamented metal reliquary box or carrying case for a holy book) that originated from an 8th-century wooden core embellished in the 11th and 15th centuries with metal plates decorated in the Insular style.
Side-view of the shrine of the Stowe Missal, mid-11th century. The format and function of cumdachs may derive from book caskets used by early Christian Romans.Both types were intended to protect sacred text or relics, and it is plausible that Irish monasteries would seek to emulate the prestige and, according to the Irish art historian Rachel Moss, "splendour of Roman liturgical ceremonies". [5]