Veneration

adoration and veneration. Historically, schools of theology have used the term “worship” as a general term which included both adoration and veneration. They

an provide exemplars for generations yet to come. p. viii The public veneration of saints in the Christian Church is known to have existed in the 2nd

a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangible memorial. A maṇi-jewel; magical jewel

concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Thabit, Diwan number 89, as quoted in And Muhammad is his Messenger - The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety, Annemarie Schimmel (1985), The University