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• n  a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
• v  enclose in a shrine
  the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral

• This they did by burrowing the bulk of the shrine underground like a cave.
• The Catholic feast of the Assumption took on special meaning on the island nation as pilgrims once again could travel to a shrine to the mother of Jesus.
• The expression "to swear by the shrine" is routinely used by both communities.

• enshrine

News & Articles

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• $1 million needed to restore Our Lady of Prompt Succor shrine
  Bill Capo / Eyewitness News Email: bcapo@wwltv.com | Twitter: @billcapo NEW ORLEANS -- The National Shrine to Our Lady of Prompt Succor is the elegant Catholic Church on the Ursuline Academy campus, with the 200-year old statue of Jesus and his mother on the altar. In 1815, as General Andrew Jackson faced a huge British army in the Battle of New Orleans, the Ursuline nuns prayed all night to ...
  June 13, 2013 - WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans
• Holy water! LaSalette Shrine flooded
  Dee DeQuattro ddequattro@abc6.com LaSalette Shrine has been flooded and not with Holy water. The Attleboro Shrine known for its light display around Christmas time has been overwhelmed by heavy rains
  June 11, 2013 - ABC 6 Providence
• Shrine video of amulet theft taken off YouTube
  A Honolulu Shinto shrine won't change its honor system even after $1,000 worth of spiritual trinkets were taken.      Board Chairman Shinken Naitoh said Friday the shrine will remain open to the public.  Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha-Hawaii Dazaifu Tenmangu uses an honor system and seeks a minimum donation of $7 for each amulet, or omamori.      Shrine officials posted surveillance footage online of ...
  June 9, 2013 - KITV Honolulu

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pakistan Times
  I was shocked and saddened by yesterday's attack on one of Pakistan's most popular places of worship, the Shrine of Syed Ali Hujviri (Data Ganj Baksh) in Lahore, which claimed the lives of many innocent Pakistanis,Clinton said in a statement.
• Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Brooks Bulletin
  The explosion of the holy shrine pushed the country into blind violence, in which tens of thousands of innocents were killed. No one knows but Allah when this tragedy will be over,Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite cleric, said...
• Pravin Togadia in International Herald Tribune
  The central government must give the land to the Amarnath shrine board. Otherwise, our protest will continue,said VHP General Secretary Pravin Togadia, warning that they would launch a "nationwide movement. "