Treasure
The treasure contains a wealth of precious items:
- Clothing from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, either Portuguese or Oriental.
- Sumptuous objects used in religious services.
- A Hispano-Arab casket of the 10th century in Ivory.
- An Iron Cross before which Frei Henrique de Coimbra celebrated the first Mass in Brazil after the arrival of Pedro Álvares Cabral.
- Numerous objects of gold, silver and precious stones used for services, like crosses, chalices among others.
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Famous quotes containing the word treasure:
“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past—the whole life of a civilization—but also a major share of the Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.”
—Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)
“Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 15:16.