Sentence examples for ecclesiastical objects from inspiring English sources

Included in the production were such domestic articles as ewers, fire irons, candlesticks, dishes, and basins and such ecclesiastical objects as censers, aquamaniles, fonts, and lecterns.

The Merovingians left little, because their art consisted mainly of small-scale metalwork (jewelry and ecclesiastical objects) that survives only from grave finds and written descriptions.

Throughout the Middle Ages, both secular and ecclesiastical objects, such as chalices, cups, reliquaries, caskets, crosiers (a staff carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office), and spoons, were elaborately enamelled.

Lead could even be useful, in the proper disguise, to simulate rich ecclesiastical objects, for not all religious institutions were wealthy: a group of 14th-century caskets covered with lead tracery, gilded to look like precious metal, have survived in church treasuries.

Dating from the 11th to the 16th century, more than 75 ecclesiastical and secular objects from the Basel Cathedral will be reunited beginning tomorrow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In cross-disciplinary explorations of over one hundred and fifty ecclesiastical, domestic, and politically charged objects created between 1885 and 1930, Irish and North American contributors place the Irish Arts and Crafts movement within the contexts of early Christian Irish art, nationalism, feminism, Celtic Revivalism, and modernism.

Are there not already examples in the U. S. of ecclesiastical wealth equally beyond its object and the foresight of those who laid the foundation of it?

During the 12th century, many ecclesiastical synods were held with the object of bringing the organization of the Irish Church more closely into line with that of western Europe, and the Anglo-Norman invasion took place in the latter part of the same century.

So, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. are referred to as "historical faiths" and their doctrines are objects of "historical faith" or "ecclesiastical faith".

In particular, he objected to the rigidity of ecclesiastical structures and the lack of moral discipline among the clergy.

All ecclesiastical art property with the exception of those objects required for the daily performance of liturgic actions.