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In Hasidic courts, the kvitel is inscribed with the names of the petitioner and his family members, along with their specific requests. [10] The form of the name is the person's full Hebrew name and his mother's Hebrew name (e.g. Shmuel ben Chana, "Shmuel the son of Chana"), even if the Rebbe already knows who he is.
The occasion for the commission was tragic: the 19-year-old woman had fallen victim to the epidemic of tuberculosis then raging in Istanbul. As was fitting for her position, the prayer book is lavishly ornate. It contains 33 surahs of the Qur’an, 80 prayers of request and praise, and 61 miniatures.
The Pope slips pieces of paper with prayer requests under the pedestal of the statue, which is just outside his room at St. Martha's House. [2] “You know,” said Francis, “you have to be patient with these carpenters: they tell you they’ll have a piece of furniture finished in a couple of weeks and it ends up taking a month even.
A German holy card from around 1910 depicting the crucifixion The earliest known woodcut, St Christopher, 1423, Buxheim, with hand-colouring Prayer card of the Holy Face of Jesus In the Christian tradition, holy cards or prayer cards are small, devotional pictures for the use of the faithful that usually depict a religious scene or a saint in ...
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