SACRED was a Cubesat built by the Student Satellite Program of the University of Arizona. It was the product of the work of about 50 students, ranging from college freshmen to Ph. D. students, over the course of several years. It was launched, after being postponed several times, on board a Dnepr on July 26, 2006. The launch was a failure.
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... According to local folklore, deer from this area were considered sacred due to a visit from one of the four gods of Kasuga Shrine, Takenomikazuchi-no-mikoto ... From that point, the deer were considered divine and sacred by both Kasuga Shrine and Kōfuku-ji ... Killing one of these sacred deer was a capital offense punishable by death up until 1637, the last recorded date of a breach of that law ...
... often had a wide and indeterminate native significance, they included sacred ceremonies, stone objects, wooden sacred objects, bullroarers, sacred ground paintings, ceremonial ...
... from Pope Leo XIII to name the new church Sacred Heart Cathedral ... Both Trevis and Cosgrove had a devotion to the Sacred Heart and Bishop Cosgrove had the image emblazoned on his coat of arms ... Sacred Heart Cathedral was the first cathedral to be dedicated to the Sacred Heart in the United States ...
... sacraments, instituted by Christ, there are many sacramentals, sacred signs (rituals or objects) that derive their power from the prayer of the Church ... examples are blessings (which dedicate a place or thing to sacred usage, or place a person under God's protection) sacred medals, holy water, rosaries, icons ... veneration of relics of saints, visits to sacred shrines, pilgrimages, processions (including Eucharistic processions), the Stations of the Cross (also known as the Way of the ...
... This can include desecration of sacred books, sacred places or sacred objects ... To respectfully remove the sacred character of a place or an object is deconsecration, and is distinct from desecration ...
Famous quotes containing the word sacred:
“Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,—means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,—one as much as another.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“For them it’s out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)