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copal seal. Height, 3 inches; width, 21 inches. — Italy. (Cat. No. 

 179037, U.S.N.M.) 



121. Silver reliquary. — With miniature pam ting of Mary. Spanish 

 workmanship. Brought to New Mexico in 1783 by Padre Sanchez. 

 Diameters, 4 and 3 inches. — Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico. (Cat. 

 No. 176080, U.S.N.M.) 



122. Silver reliquary . — With miniature paintings. Height, 2 J inches; 

 width, 2 inches.— Madrid, Spain. (Cat. No. 178864, U.S.N.M.) 



123. Sacred heart. — Model of a burning heart, made of brass. The 

 adoration of and devotion to the sacred heart of Jesus, as a noble part 

 of his person and a symbol of liis love, became general and popu- 

 lar in the Catholic Church through Margaret Marie Alacoque, a 

 French nun of the Visitation Order, who lived in the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. Since 1856 a yearly feast in honor of the sacred heart is cele- 

 brated on Friday after the feast of Corpus Christi. Height, 2^ 

 inches.— Italy. (Cat. No. 179063, U.S.N.M.) 



The cult of images is practiced both in the Roman Catholic and in 

 the Eastern Church. In the Roman Catholic Church both pictures 

 and statues are used, while the Eastern Church forbids statues. The 

 doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church concerning the veneration of 

 images, as formulated by the Council of Trent (1563), is that the 

 images of Cliiist, of the Vhgin Mother of God, and of the saints are to 

 be had and retained particularly in temples, and that honor and ven- 

 eration are to be given them; not that any divinity or virtue is be- 

 lieved to be in them on account of which they are to be worshiped, or 

 anything is to be asked of them, but because the honor which is shown 

 to them is referred to the prototypes which those images represent; in 

 such wise that by the images which we kiss, and before which we un- 

 cover the head and kneel, we adore Christ and venerate the saints 

 whose likenesses they bear. The cult paid to images is designated 

 with the Greek word dulia (secondary veneration), m contradistincton 

 from latria (supreme worship), wliich is allowed to be offered to God 

 only. 



124. Jesus in Oethsemane. — Representing Jesus kneeling with the 

 cup in front of him (Matthew xxvi, 36). Carved in relief upon a piece 

 of limestone from the river Jordan. — Jerusalem, Palestine. (Cat. 

 No. 76975, U.S.N.M.) 



125. Wooden figure of Christ. — The long curled locks are held by 

 the crown of thorns of gilded brass ; behind the head rises a cruciform 

 halo of the same material; around the loins is a kind of apron, like- 

 wise of gilded brass, with birds and floral designs in respousse work, 

 while under it is a loin cloth of blue satin. In the hands and feet, 

 which latter are crossed over one anothei, are the holes of the nails, 



