Sentence examples for bone relics from inspiring English sources

When the monument finally opened four years ago, Chandra played a central role in the enshrinement ceremony, carrying a jade stone container with original bone relics of the Buddha on his head and placing it near the top of the first dome.

The St . Josephaltar includes a bone relic of St. Leonard of Port Maurice.

At one waterhole the pump attendants have built themselves a gym out of elephant bones, relics of drought not poaching.

I felt at liberty to take an interest, to put on the white lab coat of objective investigator, to be Sally's partner with a magnifying glass, curious to find out what these old bones, relics, and potsherds of lost love have to tell.

Today the shrine contains two skulls and 23 other human bones, relics from different individuals.

Islanders carved up his body, keeping some of his bones as relics, and returned several pieces to his men, who committed them to the deep.

Inside were religious relics, bone fragments of St. Katherine, St. Sava and St. Nicholas himself, from whom Santa Claus evolved.

A sandstone chest containing bone fragments, possibly relics of a saint, was found buried beneath the altar.

Thus, during the 8th century, bones and other relics were moved from southern Europe to the north and west.

It is one thing to return aboriginal bones and sacred relics from museums, and quite another to overturn the economic and social disadvantage of aboriginal peoples as a whole.

They stopped close by the ancient tombs that hold His family's relics, bones that now lie cold.