While virtually all cultures and religions have some form of purification rite, consecration is especially associated with Christianity and Judaism.
The construction of the cathedral cost US$15,400, and since a Catholic church can only be consecrated once it has become free from debt, the cathedral did not have its rite of consecration held until 8 December 1938, exactly fifty years after it first opened.
Salt is used in the third item (which includes an Exorcism) of the Celtic Consecration (cf. Gallican Rite) that is employed in the consecration of a church.
Cardinal bishops were equal to the other bishops, even if celebrating the rite of consecration of the new pope gave them considerable prestige, while the dignity of the cardinal priest or deacon was considered lower than that of a bishop.
There pieces of paste similarly compounded and in the form of large bones were tranformed by rites of consecration into Huitzilopochtli's flesh and bones.
Both the statement of St. Paul about "the cup of blessing which we bless" (1 Corinthians 10 16) and the accounts of the institution of the Eucharist in the first three Gospels indicate that special rites of consecration attended the use of the chalice from the beginning.
Some Orthodox scholars consider this invocation or epiclesis essential for the consecration; other Orthodox and Eastern rite authorities do not.
The king's consecration could involve ritual incest.
The initiation (diksha), a rite of purification or consecration involving the transformation of the aspirant's personality, is regarded as a complement to, or even a substitute for, the previous initiation ceremony (the upanayana that all twice-born Hindus undergo at adolescence), which it strikingly resembles.
For this purpose they had ordered the construction of sites for the worship of Germanic cults in order to exchange Christian rituals for 'Nordic-Germanic' consecration ceremonies, which included different marriage and burial rites.
Earlier this year, the communion's regional leaders, or primates, issued a directive to the Episcopal Church to curtail the consecration of partnered gay and lesbian bishops and the authorizing of rites of blessing for same-sex unions.
