As for the king, he betook himself to Prague, there to enrich the Domkirche with the numerous relics and antiquities he had delightedly amassed during his stay in Swiss lands.
He would often stop a priest on the road and fling into the river the host or the relics he carried.
In this are numbers of relics embedded, both destructible and indestructible objects being perfectly well preserved, the former kept from decay through having been charred by fire.
To judge from the relics found in Helvetian tumuli the Helvetians were fond of luxuries in the way of ornaments and fine armour, and they excelled in the art of working metals, especially bronze.
At first it was intended to convert the chateau into a museum, to be filled with relics of Lafayette and Washington and the American Revolution, but the great needs that were facing France led to a change of plan.
Hobson's report is a minute record of all that occurred during his journey of seventy-four days, and includes a list of all therelics brought on board, or seen by him.
First of all we purchased all therelics of the lost expedition, consisting of six silver spoons and forks, a silver medal, the property of Mr. A.
Some relicsobtained from these natives, and brought home by Dr.
It may be imagined with what deep interest these sad relics were scrutinised, and how anxiously every fragment of clothing was turned over in search of pockets and pocket-books, journals, or even names.
The reason for the presence here of so many relics of the past, which you seem to consider remarkable, is very simple.
First and last Fayre, an old colonial town, possessed a goodly store of relics of the past, and there was no lack of material for costuming the concert.
Angels transfer therelics of the saint to his mausoleum.
The relics of the saint which, at the request of the Archbishop of Rheims had not been disturbed, were removed by the vicar of the parish at the time of the final evacuation of the town.
The Hotel-Dieu= This hospital is installed in the buildings of the ancient Abbey of the Benedictine monks of St. Remi who, for centuries, were the guardians of the relics of the famous Bishop of Rheims.
The visitor at the birthplace is given a cheerful little lecture on the various relics and curiosities as they are shown.
Several relics of interest are shown, and although the house is almost precisely like all others in the vicinity, imagination throws round it all a roseate wreath of fancies.
The sandy plain was covered with such vestiges of volcanic action, and the infernal bombs lay as imperishable relics of a hail-storm such as may have destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Not only are relics upon a pocket scale conveyed by pilgrims, and reverenced by the Arabs, but the body of any Faky, who in lifetime was considered extra holy, is brought from a great distance to be interred in some particular spot.
Of putting his head out, you mean," returned the clerk, whose knowledge of Raffles and his Relics was really most comprehensive on the whole.
The Raffles Relics It was in one of the magazines for December, 1899, that an article appeared which afforded our minds a brief respite from the then consuming excitement of the war in South Africa.
I chose most carefully, and I replaced myrelics with a mixed assortment of other people's which really look just as well.
The Napoleon Relics we know, the Nelson Relics we've heard about, and here are mine!
Everybody but one person was sent into the past on specific errands--to save art treasures and relics that would otherwise have been lost to humanity.
I felt like an archaeologist guessing at the functions of strange relics he'd found in a dead city.
Somewhere here the relics were then placed (as they lie to-day in the ground beneath this chapel), but the first monument has been lost.
The bells themselves are, with Great Tom, the only relics left of the glorious Abbey of Oseney.
On the top of this was fixed the feretrum, containing the jewelled casket that held the relics themselves.
In 1289, Robert de Ewelme being prior, therelics of St. Frideswide were again translated.
The other relics I took to Dodge City, and gave them away to first one person and then another.
I always regretted that I did not keep the relics I picked up at Adobe Walls.
No remains have ever been exhumed, nor have Roman, or British, relics been found near the spot.
In the Museum are Roman relics found while excavating, among them votive tablets recording the donors' gratitude to the nymphs of the springs for cures effected.
Even the cathedral has been altered, and in its large, rather plain interior are few relics of its earlier state, few marks to tell of the after-despoiled tombs of Henri Quatre's ancestry.
When he presented himself at Seaview only Ellen Ravensworth was at home, and to her the young officer confided the sad relics of her brother, and his dear and lamented friend.
Loubette placed the relics in her little bag, and set out on her journey on foot.
The relics in the churches of Poitiers were of the most extraordinary value; each vied with the other in wonders of the kind, until all the bones of all the saints in the calendar seemed gathered together in this favoured city.
Every mother gives relics to her child--take you mine, and oh, my son, go not forth.
They were originally built either to contain relics of a particular saint to whom they were dedicated, or the tomb of a particular family.
From the care of sacred relics preserved in royal chapels, &c.
The Albaicin is a grand place to wander in and lose oneself hunting for relics and little bits of architecture.
The mills of the Moslem's day still work, both above and below bridge, and the patient angler sits in the sun with his bamboo rod, while the wheels of these relics groan and hum as they did in days gone by.
The Cathedral is adorned at certain festivals with a series of splendid tapestries, and amongst many relics overlooked and left by the French is a fine Moorish casket of ivory.
In the church of Santa Maria de la Sar may be seen relics of the Holy Office which held its sittings in the adjoining monastery.
The sanctum sanctorum is slightly raised, and from this inmost Holy of Holies the relics are shown to the devout who kneel in front of a low railing every day at 8.
They are beautiful relics of the thirteenth century.
Many other relics of great archæological interest belong to the Cathedral, and make it well worth the journey to see.
The relics include some of Mary Magdalene's hair, and crumbs left over from the feeding of the five thousand.
A few pictures hang on the walls and other treasures and relics help to make this fine Sala an ideal council chamber for the academicians.
Amongst other priceless relics the vestry contains a fine gold chalice studded with precious stones and a good Madonna by Luini.
Many relics of Gerona's heroic defence can here be seen, as well as some early Christian and Hebrew remains.
Among the many relics I saw was a bronze altar font with coloured enamels of saints and a Moorish ivory casket, both from the monastery of San Domingo de Silos.
Many other personal relics of the two were shown me.
We also paid a visit to the palace and abbey of Holyrood, which is associated with very many historical incidents, and so replete with various relics of antiquity as would require volumes to describe.
A gentleman who spent several weeks in Damascus, hunting relics and curiosities, related to me the following anecdote concerning the founding of an ancient mosque, which stood in sight of our encampment.
The Forum of Trajan has been partially uncovered, revealing statues, broken columns and many other relics in great numbers.
Tiree is off the main tourist track, but a few antiquarians are now finding it worth their while to go and dig there for relics of byegone civilisation.
I regret that no literary relics of this acute divine are to be had.
There is no denying the fact that book-English will soon push out the relics of the old Scotch tongue.
A few earnest devotees of science spend their holidays botanising in the glens, scanning the geological strata, looking for fossils, measuring the outlines of brochs and prehistoric forts, or collecting relics of Culdee churches.
The colleges of Oscott and Stoneyhurst have collected, by purchase or by gift, many fine relics of the craft, which are most liberally granted for exhibition.
Yet the figures are not so finely drawn as those of the Durham relics of the beginning of the tenth century.
