216 ATHENS. 
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worshipped 1 . Of such a nature were the shrines 
alluded to in Sacred History, where Demetrius is 
described as stirring up those who made silver 
shrines or tabernacles for Diana 8 ; that is to say, 
little temples, or cabinets after the manner of 
temples. The custom of using them has been, 
retained among the Roman Catholics. The first 
converts to Christianity brought the use of 
portable temples with them into the Christian 
Church; for, according to Socrates Scholastics, 
the Emperor Constantine carried with him a 
portable temple in his expedition against the 
Persians, not for the worship of any idol, but of 
the true God 3 : this was a kind of tent said to 
resemble the tabernacle of Moses in the desert 4 . 
Hiera of this kind were also drawn by cattle. 
The Philistines sent back " the Ark of the God of 
Israel" in "a new cart" drawn by "two milch 
(1) The pictures of Roman- Cut holic churches have preserved the 
form of these shrines to a very late age ; the doors themselves being 
painted, and serving:, when thrown open, to exhibit a subject in three 
compartments. Of this form was the famous picture of the elevation 
or setting up of the Cross, by liuhms, over the high altar, in the 
Church of St. Walburga, rt, Antwerp. There is a very large print of 
this capital composition, by WUdoech, otherwise called ffitlione. 
St. Walburga was an English woman. 
(2) Acts xix. 24. 
(3) Socrates Scltolasticus, lib. i. c. 18. Cantab. 1720. 
4) Ibid. 
