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This square is dominated by Bhaktapur’s most famous monument, the Nyatapola Temple, which was consecrated in 1702 and is both the valley’s tallest temple and one of only three five-tiered pagodas in the valley.
The Italian papers Friday fronted what they called a snub to Pope John Paul II by China, when it consecrated five "patriotic" Roman Catholic bishops in Beijing without his authorization.
Not only was the Mass in English, celebrated by a priest facing the congregation, but at Communion time, the sacrament was distributed in both "species" (wine as well as bread) by ministers of both sexes--though some older parishioners, after receiving the consecrated wafer from priestly hands, avoided the female eucharistic minister (a laywoman) offering the chalice.
Classical sacred dance, Bharatanatyam, has a total of 108 different consecrated forms — you can see them performed by Shiva in the sculpted frieze of Thanjavur’s Brihadisvara Temple (see page 191).
In the same grounds is the magnificent three-story brick basilica of San Vitale, consecrated in 547.