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    reliquaries


    1. The monastery has also a collection of Western oil paintings, fine sacerdotal ornaments, marbles, enamels, chalices, reliquaries, including one donated by Czar Alexander II in the nineteenth century, and another by the Empress Catherine of Russia in the seventeenth


    2. The tunnel sank through commissaries of tinned films to reliquaries for the nameless


    3. To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication of parasites, to force the past on the present,—this seems strange


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