6 sentences with 'relics'
Example sentences and phrases with the word relics and other words derived from it.
• « Not all relics were created equal: the larger the object, or the closer it had been to Christ or the apostles, the more sacred power it was believed to contain. »
• « It was not just about the symbolic importance of the relics, as pilgrims travelled from all over the Roman world to visit the site of notable relics, bringing with them considerable wealth. As a result, the entire regional economy was centred on the pilgrimage sites. »
• « To return to Orthodox Christianity, it was not just because Constantinople was at the centre of the empire that the Byzantines thought it had a special relationship with God. Its power derived from the large number of churches and relics present in the city, which in turn represented an enormous amount of potency (sacred power). »
• « Frankly, there is no doubt that thousands of believers treated the icons as idols, as objects with power for themselves, as relics. »
• « Another way to access the treasury of merit was to possess, or even come into contact with, holy relics (typically the bones of saints). Thus, many rulers went to great lengths to create large collections. »
• « One German prince had his court preacher calculate the total number of years his large collection of relics would remove from his and his subjects' time in purgatory; the total was 1,902,202 years and 270 days. There was another prince whose total was 39,245,120 years of time free to leave purgatory. »