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Topic: Circlet


In the News (Tue 24 Nov 09)

  
  Encyclopedia
In that moment, in the year 6825, Aliëna was translated and left Gilalion to become Yuilan, the Handmaid of Chiel.
All that remained behind was Ildres, her circlet.
Ansim Tedanil: Born in 6101, Ansim was a Miri of considerable might, and by treacherously slaying his dearest friend and rival, Udhevron, he became Master of Kenpelmir Kartalon, the Academy of Magic in Kartalon.
www.gilalion.com /encyclopedia.htm   (1892 words)

  
 Order of the Thistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The stall plates, however, are not removed; rather, they remain permanently affixed somewhere about the stall, so that the stalls of the chapel are festooned with a colourful record of the Order's Knights (and now Ladies) since 1911.
Knights and Ladies of the Thistle may also use the circlet, collar and badge on their arms.
Knights and Ladies may encircle their arms with the circlet (a green circle bearing the Order's motto) and the collar of the Order; the former is shown either outside or on top of the latter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Order_of_the_Thistle   (2404 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Rosary
This inference, drawn out and illustrated with much learning by Father T. Esser, O.P., in 1897, becomes a practical certainty when we remember that it was only in the middle of the twelfth century that the Hail Mary came at all generally into use as a formula of devotion.
It is morally impossible that Lady Godiva's circlet of jewels could have been intended to count Ave Marias.
Hence there can be no doubt that the strings of prayerbeads were called "paternosters" because for a long time they were principally employed to number repetitions of the Lord's Prayer.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13184b.htm   (3612 words)

  
 +Beads of Inspiraton ~ About Prayer Beads ~ Rosaries and Chaplets by Via Rosa+
Angl., IV, 4) as stating that the Countess Godiva, who founded a religious house at Coventry in 1040, donated, when she was about to die, a circlet or string of costly precious stones on which she used to say her prayers, to be placed on a statue of the Blessed Virgin.
They were especially valued if they had been worn by a person of known sanctity or if they had touched the relics of any saint, in which cases they were often piously believed to be the instruments of miraculous power and healing virtue.
Beads were generally strung either on a straight thread, or cord, or so as to form a circlet, or loop.
www.viarosa.com /VR_AboutPrayerBeads.html   (4280 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Hope Diamond
Cartier had the diamond reset and took it to the U.S. where he left it with Mrs.
The sale was made in 1911 with the diamond mounted as a headpiece on a three-tiered circlet of large white diamonds.
Sometime later it became the pendant on a diamond necklace as we know it today.
www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmnh/hope.htm   (1203 words)

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