Sentence examples for relics return from inspiring English sources

And the relics' return underscores, yet again, continuing tensions between the church and secular culture in Italy.

Only after sixty years of iconoclasm and persecution of icon-venerating monasteries did pictures and relics return to the churches under the Empress Irene.

How the relics returned makes for an appropriate new chapter in the life and legacy of Galileo, which is still under debate.

We'd asked them -- for two months -- if they'd accept the old panel as a historical relic returned home, and if they'd commit to installing new ones soon.

While Iraqi officials celebrated the repatriation of what they called invaluable relics — "the return of Iraq's heritage to our house," as the state minister of tourism and antiquities, Qahtan al-Jibouri, put it — the fate of those previously returned raised questions about the country's readiness to preserve and protect its own treasures.

The Old Master quietly told the boys to see that the relics were returned.

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.

So until next Sunday, when the relics are returned to the fortified safe where they are kept during the year, worshippers in Naples can share a close encounter with their patron saint.

Chinese government officials said they had not demanded that the relics be returned because, 140 years after the looting of the palace, it would be difficult to prove that they were taken from the country illegally.

In 1988, in connection with the 1000th Anniversary of the Baptism of Russia, the head, along with other important relics, was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and kept at the Epiphany Cathedral, until being moved to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour after its restoration.

The relic was returned to the UK last week.