Word: relic
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...Relics are divided into three classes&#first-class relics are parts of the saint's body; second class, clothing which the saint wore; third class, anything the saint used or touched. No Roman Catholic altar-not even a portable altar can be consecrated unless it contains at least one piece of the body of a martyred saint. For this purpose a first-class relic of even St. Francis of Assisi would not suffice, since he was not put to death for his faith. This rule points back to the days of the early persecutions, when the Christians celebrated Mass...
Following the discovery of the violated relic, notices had appeared on all the bulletin boards inviting the culprits to see him. Frantic offers of free tickets from the dance committee had failed to produce these criminals by the deadline and the dance was cancelled, but confessions from the guilty parties restored peace to the outraged Deacons...
...also a great day for handsome John Gaver, Mrs. Whitney's college-bred trainer, who got a $5,000 bonus for saddling the winner. Gaver had had no intention of starting The Rhymer in such fast company. But when Samuel Riddle's War Relic was scratched the day before the race, leaving Jockey Eddie Arcaro without a mount, Gaver decided to take a chance. "It goes to show," said he, "that if you don't aim at the moon once in a while, you'll never...
...tomb in the Red Square. So one of the clearest hints of Stalin's emotion and Moscow's peril last week was the closing of the tomb. Millions of Russians had made the pilgrimage to this shrine. Its closing suggested that Communism's holy relic, the remains of Lenin, had been sent away from the city...
...Cassandra days, Mr. Keynes called the gold standard a "barbarous relic"; Mr. Norman, in his heyday, said "I am the gold standard...