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Holy Sacrament with the Cardinals etc. The procession then goes to the high-altar; and having prayed for a short time before it, the Pope goes to the throne, [31] and there receives the _ubbidienza_ or homage of all the cardinals present, who in turn kiss His right hand covered with the cope.

The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

The _Apsis_ is not very deep and terminates by a segment, cut out of a masonry work outwardly square; entirely devoted to the sanctuary, it only contains the high-altar, the twenty four stalls of the chapter and a necessary room to perform divine worship.

Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

After it is over, you may go to S. Peter's to bear the conclusion of a similar service: there on Thursday evening the high-altar is washed by the Card, priest and chapter; on Friday the Pope, Cardinals etc. go thither to venerate the relics after Tenebræ in the S.xtine chapel; and on the afternoons of both days the Card.

The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

All then move in procession towards the high-altar in the order observed in the procession of the palms, as described below: [30] the Pope descends from His _sedia gestatoria_ to adore the

The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

The high-altar with its haloed statues, flowers, candelabra, and ever-burning lamps; the side-altars, similarly adorned, above one of which, it may be, is seen the image of Maia, the mother of

Religion in Japan

All the same, this great church was wonderful, and the Australians, scrunching their slouch-hats, stared up at the tall columns to the clerestory arches, and peered through the screen to the golden sun upon the high-altar, and touched old tombs with their muddy hands, reading the dates on them -- 1250, 1155, 1415 -- with astonishment at their antiquity.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

The figure of Mary, which is more than life size, stands at the middle of the high-altar, with six angels doing her reverence.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Tambeskjelver, laid the corpse in a coffin and set it on the high-altar in the church of St. Clement in Nidaros (now Trondhjem).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

For a long time his sepulchre, behind the high-altar of the cathedral of Tyr, was visited by pilgrims.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

There her body remains enshrined to this day, incorrupt, in a silver shrine over the high-altar.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913