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Thus the Ku Klux Klan wore the vestments of the Catholics they despised, and the John Birch Society organized itself in secret cells and front groups modeled on the Communist foe.
Rooms display sacred art, archaeological remains, the original charter of Lagos, holy vestments, and a bizarre collection of creatures, like a science experiment gone bad: an eight-legged goat kid preserved in formaldehyde, a one-eyed sheep, a cat with two faces.
Sixty-one scenes from the Greek prayer Lord, Thou Art Great by renowned icon painter Ioánnis Kornáros (1770) are among the highlights, along with jewel-encrusted vestments and reliquaries of precious metals.
Episcopalians, Lutherans, and some Methodists have rediscovered rituals, ornaments, and clerical vestments (the "rags of popery" of Protestant polemic) discarded during the Reformation.
The collection covers all aspects of Coptic art and worship, from vestments, tapestries, early handwritten bibles, and painted icons, to ornate stone niches and wood-carved ceilings taken from churches all across Egypt.