To our right was a mountain, upon the top of which is the tomb of a Sheikh, held in great veneration by the Bedouins, who frequently visit it, and there sacrifice sheep.
About thirty paces from the church, on a somewhat lower peak, stands a poor mosque, without any ornaments, held in great veneration by the Moslems, and the place of their pilgrimage.
I expected to revisit them on my return to Damascus, but I subsequently preferred taking the route of the Loehf.
In a small chapel adjoining the church is shewn the place where the Lord is supposed to have appeared to Moses in the burning bush; it is called Alyka [Arabic], and is considered as the most holy spot in Mount Sinai.
It is dedicated to the transfiguration, or as the Greeks call it, the metamorphosis, and not to saint Catherine, whose relics only are preserved here.
The Mohammedans hold the site of the martyrdom in great veneration, and go there to pray.
So the Jews at the present time believe, consequently they hold the place in great veneration, and pay very highly to be interred after death anywhere near it; which is the cause of the accumulation of stones round it.
That useful Part of Learning which consists in Emendation, Knowledge of different Readings, and the like, is what in all Ages Persons extremely wise and learned have had in great Veneration.
When the Pope is thus merry, the People will in time begin to think many things, which they have hitherto beheld with great Veneration, are in themselves Objects of Scorn and Derision.
Francesco, representing a Madonna with modern ornamentation, which is held in great veneration by the friars there.
He brought them to Florence, where he holds them in great veneration, as well as some other things in his possession, also by Giotto, who produced so much that an enumeration of all his works would excite incredulity.
Petronio at Bologna and which is held in great veneration.
They held in great veneration the 'lord of the black men,' who was entitled Yal-ahua.
This Inca also commanded all the nations they conquered to hold their huacas in great veneration.
For the sea was raised to a great height by an earthquake, and overwhelmed both Helice and the temple of the Heliconian Neptune, whom the Ionians still hold in great veneration, and offer sacrifices to his honour.
Between Laodiceia and Carura is a temple of Mēn Carus, which is held in great veneration.
There is also near the mountain an enclosure, sacred to Hades, held in great veneration by the Macistii; and a grove dedicated to Ceres, situated above the Pyliac plain.
In this province, also, the Lord of Manta had an emerald of great size and value, which the people and their ancestors held in great veneration.
In the important temple of Pachacamac they held a she fox in great veneration, and worshipped it.
Another account states that the Druidesses held Vervain in asgreat veneration as the Druids did the Mistletoe.
This place is held in great veneration by the Turks, who use it for an oratory, and demand of all Christians a small caphar for their admission into it.
The Turks (of whom here are a few poor families) hold this prison in great veneration, and over it have erected a small mosque; but for a little piece of money they suffer you to go in and satisfy your curiosity at pleasure.
This place is at present a college of dervises, and is held in great veneration by the Turks and Jews, as well as Christians.
In the former his body is deposited, and we were admitted to see his tomb, though held by the Turks in great veneration.
The monastic school of Caimin continued to flourish for many centuries after his death, and produced several distinguished scholars, whose names are still held in great veneration by the learned.
Yet the school and monastery survived the ravages both of the Danes and natives, and were held in great veneration by the wisest and best men in Erin.
Hence the religious habit was then held in great veneration; the monk was joyfully received everywhere, and people from all quarters ran to get his blessing.
This bird is an object of great veneration or worship among the Indian tribes of every portion of the state.
IV-30] A people, called by Castaneda Tahus, apparently of Sinaloa in the neighborhood of Culiacan, regarded certain large serpents with sentiments of great veneration if not of worship.
According to Landa the high-priest was termed Ahkin Mai, or Ahau Can Mai, and held in great veneration, as one whose advice was followed by the kings and grandees.
A relic of this saint was formerly kept with great veneration in the cathedral of Canterbury, mentioned in the history of that church, &c.
King Clovis after his conversion held him in great veneration.
His tomb was in great veneration at Upsal, till his ashes were scattered on the change of religion, in the sixteenth century.
And at the same time he sent certain works wrought by himself in Florence to Empoli, which works are still held to-day in great veneration in the Pieve of that township.
Francesco, in the Chapel of the Conception, with a modern frame, wherein is a Madonna held by these friars in great veneration.
Grizzly Bear holds him in great veneration, and obeys him as if he were his son.
This spot was held in great veneration by the Missouri Indians, who went there constantly to hang up presents.
This tree was long held in great veneration even in our own country for its supposed virtue in removing rickets or healing internal ruptures.
Yet such of the groves as remained from former times were still held in great veneration, and reverenced the more for the sake of their antiquity.
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