Word: holiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime Minister Yugo Hamaguchi to pay their respects to the Empress. Shinto priests held thanksgiving services at three shrines in the palace: the Kashikodokoro, shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, Japan's holiest relic; the Ancestor's shrine, temple of all the ancestors of the Imperial family, and the Shinden, dedicated to all the "80 myriad" gods of the Shinto religion...
...golden urn containing two hairs from the beard of the true Prophet. Nearby is the coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails of which the written word says when they fall out all things will come to an end. Of the many relics sanctified to Jews, holiest is the Wailing Wall. For generations they have gone there to lament ". . . for the Temple that is destroyed . . . for our Majesty that is departed ... for our Great Men who lie dead...
...site of the great sacrificial pyramid destroyed by Cortez in 1521. New evidence points to the fact that the pyramid had covered a primitive oil well. While the scientists talked and planned, pious Mexicans visioned in shocked silence the desecration of one of America's oldest and holiest shrines...
...Jerusalem is the holiest place in the world of Jewry: the Wailing Wall, sole remnant, it is said, of the silently-built temple of Solomon. Here, too, for Christians to worship, is the empty tomb of Christ, and for Mohammedan Arabs, the Coffin of Mohammed, studded with 17 gold nails...
Smaller than the New Testament is the Koran, holiest of books to the 209,000,000 Mohammedans who live in Asia, Africa, Europe, and to the 20,000 who live in the U. S. and Canada. Here Allah speaks in the first person from the breathless vastness where He reigns. Here are tales of Noah, Moses, Joseph, of the great Horned Alexander; here is denounced the idolatry of those who worship Christ as the Son of God. The Koran was dictated by, or remembered from the sayings of, the great Prophet to whom Angel Gabriel brought messages. In heaven...