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| | NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Yasukuni Shrine |
 | | Shrine priests insist though that their kami are to be thought of as ancestors of the living and not as angry spirits. | | | A torii at Itsukushima Shrine Shinto (ç¥&; ShintÅ) (sometimes called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. | | | Moreover, Yasukuni Shrine is adamant that once a kami has been merged into the shrine, it cannot be separated, although it has been pointed out that there are some historical precedents in Shinto rituals where certain kami which were jointly housed in a particular shrine have been rehoused separatedly. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Shrine of Guadalupe |
| | The present pontiff [1910] is the nineteenth pope to favour the shrine and its tradition. | | | Vouchers were given for the existence of Bishop Zumárraga's letter to his Franciscan brethren in Spain concerning the apparitions. | | | In the latter year there was a shrine at the foot of Tepeyac Hill which served for ninety years, and still, in part, forms the parochial sacristy. |
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| | Marian shrine - encyclopedia article about Marian shrine. |
| | In Christian culture and practice, a shrine to the Virgin Mary or Marian shrine is a shrine marking an apparition or other miracle ascribed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a site on which is centered a historically strong Marian devotion. | | | shrine, from the Latin scrinium (‘box’, also used as a desk, like the french bureau hence also an administrative office) is originally a container, usually in precious materials, especially for a relic, and/or holy or sacred place containing the same, hence dedicated towards a certain god, goddess, saint, or similar religious figure. | | | the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC |
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| | Encyclopedia of Aikido [AIKI SHRINE] |
| | An OMOTO shrine located in IWAMA, Ibaragi Prefecture erected in the early 1960s by Morihei UESHIBA which symbolizes his belief in aikido as a spiritual discipline. | | | Morihiro SAITO was the shrine's guardian from 1969 until his death in May 2002. | | | An older shrine no longer in use constructed c. |
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