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    This article offers a synopsis of Beeethoven's relics and his houses. Dr. Abigal Fine argues that by investigating relics and shrines, which her research serve as a bridge to the cultural force that define the Beethoven's music. It was common in the Nineteenth century to cherish locks of hair, autograph manuscripts as relics, and to visit birth and death sites on pilgrimage. Fine explain a new case of studies on the relics and museams of Beethoven. Mainly, her evidence comes from Bonn and Vienna:

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    spiritual quest to obtain supernatural help or as a form of penance for sins, exposed pilgrims to new art and architecture on their journeys. Many types of art contributed to the medieval pilgrimage experience, including the buildings in which saints’ relics were housed, the ornaments and furnishings of these churches, the

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    The cathedral has a ninety-two-foot-long nave and short transepts to the south and north. The east end is round. Since this building was made very tall in order to been seen from miles away, they use flying buttresses and ribbed vaults to help support the buildings walls. This skeletal system of supported allowed for large spaces of the cathedral to be free to put in stained-glass work. This stained-glass work is also said to be one of the most complete collections of medieval stained glass in the

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    objects may be artifacts of when they were in less power than present day, which was the case of the Peruvians. As the article already mentioned earlier in the writing states, “citizens of Peru will be able to see the historic relics many have never seen before.” These relics which the citizens of Peru should be proud of cause havoc on their history in which many people of Peru we unable to see during their

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    representative of selfishness and greed. The job of the Pardoner is to sell relics to people who are looking to be forgiven for their sins. In return they pay him a donation which is supposed to go to the church. however, the Pardoner keeps the money for himself, and sells fake relics to any poor soul who will listen to him. He will

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    sins, and grants their time in purgatory to be shortened. In the General Prologue, the narrator enhances the Pardoner’s reputation when he explains the relics, the physical remains of a saint or a holy person, which he has in his pillowcase. In doing this, readers view the Pardoner as saintly and virtuous. The narrator explains the man’s relics belonging to Our Lady and Saint Peter: For in his male he hadde a pilwe-beer, Which he seyde was Oure Lady veyl; He seyde he hadde a gobet of the seyl That

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    brothels, this was the opposite of how they were supposed to act. He became angry with the indulgences, relics, cheating the poor out of more money for nothing but their own financial gain. At the University of Wittenberg, Luther expressed all of his concerns openly and many students/faculty agreed with him. The corrupt church received all of their money from indulgences and by people paying to see relics, but the church also held power over the people, the kings, emperors, queens, etc. These were some

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    An Outdated Buddhist

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    which the Buddha had lived gotten one part of the relics, and a stupa was raised in every kingdom keeping in mind the end goal to house the remaining parts. Buddhist sources assert that amid the third century BCE, the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka the Great requested these eight stupas to be opened, further appropriated the relics of the Buddha into 84,000 partitions, and had stupas assembled over every one of them over the extending Buddhist world. The relics of the Buddha were not just considered a memorial

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    A copious amount of arguments exist in contemporary society regarding every debatable aspect of religion. However, one subject remains indisputable. This unambiguous fact references the absolute corruption demonstrated by the medieval Catholic church, and the financially-driven transgressions propagated by its officials. This theological topic is particularly incontestable due to the plentiful volume of literary testimonies able to be sourced from the medieval English epoch. Even a particularly pious

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    in Buddhism. However, the subject of veneration is different in each case. Thus stupa is only a reliquary; relics that are buried underneath the monument are venirated. Stupa itself, as an architectural structure, has different function: it holds relics, its reliefs act as a guidance or an aid for visual meditation, it is a marker for a specific location, etc. While Famensi Bones are relics themselves, they are the main objects of veneration. The form of veneration is different too. In case of stupa

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