Sentence examples for focus of veneration from inspiring English sources

ONE of Europe's oldest pilgrimage centres should be a place of rejoicing at this time of year, especially for the travellers who have trudged hundreds of miles to reach Santiago de Compostela in time for the annual feast day of Saint James, whose earthly remains have been a focus of veneration for many centuries.

Some reports suggest that youth religion in Iran in increasingly focused on veneration of the vanished imam.

For much of the rest of the century, the empire was absorbed in the Iconoclastic Controversy, which became a struggle not only to keep icons, a traditional focus of religious veneration, but also to combat the subjection of the church to the will of the emperor.

The precise purpose of potbelly sculptures is unknown, although they appear to have been the focus of public veneration and ritual directed by the ruling elite.

After the Buddha's death the first foci for this sort of veneration seem to have been his relics and the stupas that held them.

This development accompanied and served the growing cult of saints and the widespread practice of addressing images as focuses of prayer and veneration.

Film stardom isn't just about what people do on-screen, and film stars remain the focus of our prurient curiosity and our veneration.

CHINEN There's a ton of veneration in it.

That spirit of veneration has changed very little.

This is graffiti as a form of veneration".

Extremists are the enemy, whatever their objects of veneration.