Sentences with phrase «high altar»
The phrase "high altar" refers to the main or central altar in a church or religious building. It holds significant importance and is often located at the front or center of the church. Full definition
From the three - legged dining table on which St. Peter was supposed to have celebrated his first mass in Rome, to the monolithic high altar of St. Peter's Basilica, to the «convenient wooden communion table» prescribed by Archbishop William Laud, the church has wrestled with the alternatives: altar or table?
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And yet, in the church of each monastery and convent, there was to be found the same high altar dedicated to the Holy Trinity, the same Lady Chapel for the Blessed Mother, and altars and shrines to saints of both sexes.
Of particular interest are Michelangelo's Pietà, the bronze statue of St. Peter, and Bernini's canopy over the high altar.
After some suffering and much joy, in the company of those sent to be with him in the pilgrimage, the pilgrim arrives at Santiago Cathedral, prays at the tomb under the high altar, and performs certain other traditional rituals.
The still life of Bible and candle is «a high altar» on which «books... are not mere heaps of parchment and paper.
They took down the high altar, sold the statues, and ripped out the altar rails.
And the faithful remnant scattered in the pews were too poor, too old, and too few to think of bringing back the statues and the high altar for which their parents had sacrificed countless ginger drops and ice cream sodas so many years ago.
Electric lights are dimmed, and the primary light in the building comes from hundreds of candles on the high altar and the chancel rail, around the lectern and pulpit.
The statues and the high altar that filled the narrow sanctuary were also extravagences.
Francis Bernadone wanders into a church in Assisi, stands under the crucifix over the high altar, looks upon that body impaled, cadaver - like, before him — stark, simple, demanding — thinks he hears it speak, and feels his very soul pierced by the force of it all.
The content of the plays was overtly religious, and the stage was inevitably in the church itself before the high altar.
Fine, they can do those things if they want, but doing their stupid stunts on the high altar of the cathedral is just plain offensive.
When the play was over, the men of the village would join the men of the traveling troupe; filling their mugs with beer, they would drink to the glory of God before the high altar.
On the high altar, the crosses of nails and charred beams insist that sacrifice and pain have occurred here, only to be transfigured by God.
Martin was standing at the high altar, and began the prayer: «Te igitur, clementissime Pater... Therefore, oh most merciful Father.»
See for yourself the exuberant Rococo style in the engraving on the high altar, followed by a view of the cross vaulting and the Chapel of the Santíssimo Sacramento.
There is also a bronze, high altar to be seen.
- A double - sided drawing after Donatello's «Miracle of Miser's Heart,» (1505 - 1520) from the workshop of Raphael, reproduces figurative groups from Donatello's bronze reliefs for the high altar of Sant» Antonio, Padua.
The Sant» Agostino altarpiece (1454 — 69), a soaring, gilded polyptych decorated with many painted panels, towered over the high altar of the Augustinian church for almost one hundred years.
Among Piero's major works is the Sant» Agostino altarpiece (1454 — 69), a large polyptych that towered over the high altar of the local Augustinian church and was disassembled around 1555.
The 1004 drawings in 99 showcases of Universe (2002 - 2006), and the solar system of Every Life is a Fire (2010 - 2012), are presented in locations outside of the museum, respectively the banquet of the 19th century Athenaeum close to the Central Station, and the high altar of the Saint - Paulus church which houses the most important ensemble of baroque sculpture in the country.
Houses destroyed, and in the village of Hickling the water was so deep that it overflowed the high altar of the priory by a foot or more.
On February 7, 1993, the architect William McDonough, a prophet of the sustainability and clean - technology movements, which set in motion many of the green design practices that are commonplace today, delivered a centennial sermon from the high altar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York City.