Sentences with phrase «household altar»

So to whom do you set up the household altar?

There were reports and pictures of widespread household altars to Chávez, with an effigy or image of him replacing Christ on the cross.

This Buddhist - Confucian custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors» graves, and when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars.

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«Cut down the creeping crawling swarm of vermin at Rome, so that the Pope's household can be supported out of the Pope's own pocket... The Pope should have no authority over the Emperor, except the right to anoint and crown him at the altar.

He was brought up in a Roman Catholic household and was an altar boy.

Published simultaneously by University of New Mexico Press in the United States as well as Thames and Hudson in Great Britain, the book is a result of his family's experience examining how people evoke sacredness in their everyday environments in the creation of devotional altars and household arrangements which sanctify and personalize the places in which they live.

In her solo show at Luhring Augustine in New York, Janine Antoni cast body parts and household furniture in wax, forming ethereal, surrealist combinations inspired by milagros, small devotional items left by Latin American worshippers at church altars.