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Christians have often admired and venerated martyrs who died for their faith, but for long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, Christian attitude toward the bones of the dead, saint or not, was that of respectful distance. The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics examines how this changed in the mid-fourth century. Robert Wiśniewski investigates how Christians began to believe in power of relics, first, over demons, then over physical diseases and enemies. He considers how they sought to reveal hidden knowledge at the tombs of saints and why they buried the death close to them. An essential element of this new belief was a string conviction that the power of relics was transferred in a physical way and so the following chapters study relics as material objects. Wiśniewski analyses what the contact with relics looked like and how close it was. Did people touch, kiss, or look at the very bones, or just at reliquaries which contained them ? When did the custom of dividing relics appear ? Finally, the book the book deals with discussions and polemics concerning relics and tries to find out how strong was the opposition which this new phenomenon had to face, both within and outside Christianity on its way relics to become an essential element of the medieval religiosity

231.739 --- 264-052 --- 264-052 Verering van relikwieën --- Verering van relikwieën --- Relikwieën --- 231.739 Relikwieën --- Relics --- Saints --- Church history --- Cult --- History --- Relics. --- Christianisme --- Reliques. --- Culte --- Reliques

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Theft of relics --- Social history --- Relics --- Reliques --- Histoire sociale --- History --- Vol --- 231.738 --- 231.739 --- 264-052 --- 264-052 Verering van relikwieën --- Verering van relikwieën --- 231.739 Relikwieën --- Relikwieën --- 231.738 Lijkwade van Turijn --- Lijkwade van Turijn --- Reliques (Vols de)

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The cult of saints, their relics, and devotion to their shrines is a phenomenon born in Late Antiquity that durably shaped medieval and modern practices across a broad geographical and cultural area spreading first throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. How was the creation of vessels for the holy remains of saints implemented during a culturally heterogenous period? Indeed, how could boxes of various shapes, sizes, and materials become containers to shelter sacred matter? What materials could be used in reliquaries’ making, and what images should adorn them? And how did reliquaries, with their geographical and social portability, contribute to the translocation of site-bound sanctity and the spread of saints’ and shrines’ networks across the Late Antique world?Tracing the medieval reliquary’s “pre-history”, this volume examines boxes bearing Christian images and patterns made between the fourth to the sixth century ce. It investigates how vessels adorned with images acquired meaning and power, exploring the dynamics of transformation that accompany both the creation of these objects and their long history of reuse, marginalization, and rediscovery.

264-052 --- 264-052 Verering van relikwieën --- Verering van relikwieën --- Reliquaires --- Reliquaries, Medieval. --- Relics --- Shrines --- Christian antiquities --- Art, Early Christian --- Christian art and symbolism --- Material culture --- Reliquaries, Medieval --- History --- History.

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La riscoperta dell’immagine pura, veicolo di valori e di pietà, dell’immagine significante al di là del tratto e del segno, oggi in un mondo che ne ha fatto l’espressione del futile e del vacuo, rappresentazione dell’attimo non impressionante legata ad un cavo o ad un satellite, è una necessità. Recuperare il senso dell’immagine, significa ridare a questa particolare espressione comunicativa il valore didatticopedagogico che da sempre le è stato riconosciuto. Il Libro secondo della Quarta Disputa Generale, La Chiesa Trionfante, per la prima volta in edizione critica e traduzione in italiano, di Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino (1542- 1621), teologo cattolico, che dialoga e si confronta con Giovanni Calvino (1509-1564), teologo riformatore, sulla opportunità di ritenere le immagini e le reliquie dei santi degne di venerazione, senza incorrere nel peccato di idolatria, dà lo spunto per riflettere sull’attualità della tematica e sul quinto centenario del movimento protestante con la conseguente nascita delle Chiese Cristiane Riformate. «Un invito a ripercorrere insieme il cammino della tradizione della Chiesa indivisa per riesaminare alla sua luce le divergenze che i secoli di separazione hanno accentuato tra noi, onde ritrovare, secondo la preghiera di Gesù al Padre (Gv 17,11.20-21), la piena comunione nell’unità visibile» (Giovanni Paolo II, Lettera Apostolica (4 dicembre 1987), Duodecimo espleto saeculo a concilio Nicaeno II).

Relics --- Christian saints --- Cult --- 248.159.7 --- 231.739 --- 264-052 --- Relics and reliquaries --- Bones --- Religious articles --- Saints --- Canonization --- 264-052 Verering van relikwieën --- Verering van relikwieën --- 231.739 Relikwieën --- Relikwieën --- 248.159.7 Devotie tot de heiligen:--alfabetisch --- Devotie tot de heiligen:--alfabetisch --- Christian saints - Cult --- Reliques --- Iconographie

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Christian special devotions --- anno 500-1499 --- 248.159.22 --- 264-052 --- #GROL:SEMI-264.020.2 --- #GROL:SEMI-265.39 --- Devotie tot de Heilige Eucharistie --- Verering van relikwieën --- 264-052 Verering van relikwieën --- 248.159.22 Devotie tot de Heilige Eucharistie --- Lord's Supper --- Christian saints --- Relics --- History --- Miracles --- Cult --- Lord's Supper - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Lord's Supper - Miracles --- Christian saints - Cult - Europe --- Reliques --- Eucharistie