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     24-5. Media related to Santa Maria della Spina (Pisa) at Wikimedia Commons Page at Antropologia Arte Sacra 43°42′55″N 10°23′47″E / 43.71528°N 10.39639°E...
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    got the current shape. It hosts one of alleged Jesus' crown of thorns (Sacra Spina). Castello Caldoresco D'Avalos Palace [it], which houses four museums...
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    got the current shape. It hosts one of alleged Jesus' crown of thorns (Sacra Spina). Castello Caldoresco Palazzo D'Avalos: Imposing palace in the center...
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  • noted for every Easter displaying the putatively miraculous relic of the Sacra Spina or Holy Thorn, putatively derived from the crown of thorns place on Christ...
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    of Cagliari. He called a diocesan synod in 1928. He is buried in the Sacra Spina chapel in Cagliari Cathedral and his beatification process has begun...
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    original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2015. "trapaniplus – Sacra spina". Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 16 February...
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  • Naffis-Sahely, André (July 29, 2014). "Spina's Shadow" – via www.thenation.com. "Morcelliana, antico e nuovo testamento, sacra scrittura, teologia, filosofia...
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    demolished and the obelisk transferred to Rome. He had it placed on the spina which ran along the center of the Circus of Nero. It was moved to its current...
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    Machine Vitella 2011, p. 36 Vitella 2011, p. 35 (in Italian) trapaniplus - Sacra spina Archived 2015-01-23 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian) Trapani Nostra...
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    The sacrum (pl.: sacra or sacrums), in human anatomy, is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine that forms by the fusing of the sacral vertebrae...
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    conical object in a Roman circus that stood at either end of the central spina, around which racing chariots would turn. The Meta Sudans had the same shape...
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  • circus and a mosaic at Barcelona, represent Cybele sitting on a lion on the spina of the circus, just east of its centre. Annually, on 27 March, the sacred...
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    organized crime syndicates in Italy that were founded in the 20th century: the Sacra Corona Unita, the Società foggiana and the Bari crime groups from Apulia;...
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    has recently been rediscovered. The crocetta di Caltanissetta and the spina sacra (lit. 'sacred thorn') are two pastry dishes that were traditionally prepared...
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    massive obelisk ships, used to transport an obelisk from Egypt to adorn the spina of the Circus of Caligula. The harbour opened directly to the sea on the...
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  • auri sacra fames accursed hunger for gold From Virgil, Aeneid, Book 3, 57. Later quoted by Seneca as quod non mortalia pectora coges, auri sacra fames...
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    Murcia's stream was partly built over, to form a dividing barrier (the spina or euripus) between the turning posts, her shrine was either retained or...
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    in Biblical Hebrew kinar, which is thought to be the fruit of Ziziphus spina-christi. Negev, Avraham; Gibson, Shimon, eds. (2001). "Kinneret". Archaeological...
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    44). The site for crucifixions in the Circus would have been along the spina ("spine"), as suggested by the 2nd century Acts of Peter describing the...
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    that important structures such as the Capitolium, Cloaca Maxima, and Via Sacra were realized. The Etruscan civilization had a great influence on the culture...
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    lustrations, its head hotly contested between the inhabitants of the Via Sacra and those of the Suburra who competed for the honor of displaying the relic...
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  • Augustus, together with the Obelisk of Montecitorio, and placed on the spina of the Circus Maximus, followed three centuries later by the Lateran Obelisk...
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    Romans gave Cloelia the unusual honour of a statue at the top of the Via Sacra, showing Cloelia mounted on a horse—that is, as an eques. Livy also recounts...
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    light the way; "the most auspicious wood for wedding torches came from the spina alba, the May-tree, which bore many fruits and hence symbolised fertility"...
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    had stood since 10 BC where it was installed by Augustus to decorate the spina of the Circus Maximus.map There they both remained, until after the fall...
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    Diodorus Siculus, Library 8-40, 8.23.1 Pausanias, VIII, 46, 2, and IX, 40, 4 Spina, Giuseppe La (6 September 2016). "L'arrivo dei Greci e la fondazione della...
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  • Hyssop Hyssopus officinalis Leviticus 14:52 קטרת‎ qaṭṭərāh Incense Boswellia sacra Hosea 4:13 שושנ‎ šōšannāh Iris (then denominated "Lily") Iris palaestina...
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    a number of streets radiating from the central square, maintaining the "spina", or spine, of the structures of Borgo directly between the square and the...
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    Constantius II, and brought on its own from there to Rome in 357 to decorate the spina of the Circus Maximus.map Found in three pieces in 1587, restored approximately...
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    1774) Luigi Valenti Gonzaga (30 March 1778 – 29 November 1790) Giuseppe Spina (24 May 1802 – 21 February 1820) Dionisio Bardaxí y Azara (27 September...
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