The _Apsis_ is not very deep and terminates by a segment, cut out of a masonry work outwardly square; entirely devoted to the sanctuary, it only contains the high-altar, the twenty four stalls of the chapter and a necessary room to perform divine worship. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Holy Sacrament with the Cardinals etc. The procession then goes to the high-altar; and having prayed for a short time before it, the Pope goes to the throne, [31] and there receives the _ubbidienza_ or homage of all the cardinals present, who in turn kiss His right hand covered with the cope. ❋ Charles Michael Baggs (N/A)
After it is over, you may go to S. Peter's to bear the conclusion of a similar service: there on Thursday evening the high-altar is washed by the Card, priest and chapter; on Friday the Pope, Cardinals etc. go thither to venerate the relics after Tenebræ in the S.xtine chapel; and on the afternoons of both days the Card. ❋ Charles Michael Baggs (N/A)
All then move in procession towards the high-altar in the order observed in the procession of the palms, as described below: [30] the Pope descends from His _sedia gestatoria_ to adore the ❋ Charles Michael Baggs (N/A)
The high-altar with its haloed statues, flowers, candelabra, and ever-burning lamps; the side-altars, similarly adorned, above one of which, it may be, is seen the image of Maia, the mother of ❋ Unknown (N/A)
All the same, this great church was wonderful, and the Australians, scrunching their slouch-hats, stared up at the tall columns to the clerestory arches, and peered through the screen to the golden sun upon the high-altar, and touched old tombs with their muddy hands, reading the dates on them -- 1250, 1155, 1415 -- with astonishment at their antiquity. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
The figure of Mary, which is more than life size, stands at the middle of the high-altar, with six angels doing her reverence. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Tambeskjelver, laid the corpse in a coffin and set it on the high-altar in the church of St. Clement in Nidaros (now Trondhjem). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
For a long time his sepulchre, behind the high-altar of the cathedral of Tyr, was visited by pilgrims. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
There her body remains enshrined to this day, incorrupt, in a silver shrine over the high-altar. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
There, by the high-altar, I saw a form that seemed at first luminous and ghostly, but in which presently I recognised Madonna Paola, the dim rays of the distant tapers finding out the white robe with which her limbs were hung. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
On I sped towards the high-altar, flying now as men fly in evil dreams, with the sensation of an enemy upon them and their progress a mere standing-still. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
The high-altar picture -- a "Temptation of S. Anthony" by Tintoretto -- is now hidden by a golden shrine, while another of the show pieces, a saint on horseback, possibly by Jacobello del Fiore, in the chapel to the left of the choir, is sadly in need of cleaning, but obviously deserving of every care. ❋ Harry [Illustrator] Morley (1903)
[16] This picture having been brought to completion in 1510, and Cima's great altar-piece with the same subject, behind the high-altar in the Church of S. Giovanni in Bragora at Venice, being dated 1494, the inference is irresistible that in this case the head of the school borrowed much and without disguise from the painter who has always been looked upon as one of his close followers. ❋ Phillips, Claude (1897)
As they turned again towards the high-altar, its huge twisted gilded columns glimmering in the light of the tapers, lights appeared in the Veronica balcony; priests moved to and fro with a great gold cross in that distant lit-up gloom; the canons fell on their knees, great purple poppies. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
The round church was empty, dark, but full of the smell of fresh incense; and in that darkness I was fairly blinded by the effulgence of the high-altar, tier upon tier of tapers. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
And in the apse, before the high-altar, was stretched on the slabs, with a night-light at each corner, something dark and mysterious: the crucifix, the form barely defined, shrouded in violet. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
Yesterday, Giovedi Santo evening, the washing of the high-altar of St. Peter's. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
As they went up to the altar the bell sounded for the Elevation at the high-altar of the church, at the _missa familiaris_, and the footstep of someone passing through the north transept ceased instantly at the sound. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
The high-altar, it was remembered, had been of stone throughout, surrounded with curtains on the three sides, hanging between posts that had each a carven angel, all gilt. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
