A church treasury or church treasure is the collection of historical art treasures belonging to a church, usually a cathedral or monastery (monastery treasure). Such "treasure" is usually held and displayed in the church's treasury or in a diocesan museum. Historically the highlight of church treasures was often a collection of reliquaries.
As a result of gifts and the desire to acquire sacred artifacts, many churches over the centuries gathered valuable and historic collections of altar plates, illuminated manuscripts of liturgical or religious books, as well as vestments, and other works of art or items of historical interest. Despite iconoclasm, secularism, looting, fire, the enforced sale of treasure in times of financial difficulty, theft and other losses, much of this treasure has survived or has even been repurchased. Many large churches have been displaying their riches to visitors in some form for centuries.
A churchtreasury or church treasure is the collection of historical art treasures belonging to a church, usually a cathedral or monastery (monastery treasure)...
kept. These can be state or royal property, church treasure or in private ownership. The head of a treasury is typically known as a treasurer. This position...
The Trier Cathedral Treasury is a museum of Christian art and medieval art in Trier, Germany. The museum is owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier...
The treasury of merit or treasury of the Church (thesaurus ecclesiae; Greek: θησαυρός, thesaurós, treasure; Greek: ἐκκλησία, ekklēsía‚ convening, congregation...
British Museum. Col.1, L.52 to Col.2, L. 27 Andrews, William (1898). The ChurchTreasury of History, Custom, Folk-Lore, etc. London: Williams Andrews & Co....
the most important collections of medieval church artworks in Europe. In 1978, the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, along with Aachen Cathedral, was the first...
Totanes accepts all the gifts meant for the Governor to augment the church'streasury. Dona Luisa reappears on the scene bothered her daughter is nowhere...
important collections of church cultural artefacts in Europe The Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht, a churchtreasury with some fine specimens...
of the Essen Cathedral Treasury The Essen Cathedral Treasury on the homepage of the Association of Church Museums and Treasuries of the German Speaking...
The Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius is a museum of religious art and artifacts inside the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht, Netherlands...
often such objects ended up in the relatively secure environment of a churchtreasury. Alternatively it might, like several other cage cups, have been recovered...
The church has an important churchtreasury; Sint-Janskerk, a Gothic church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, the city's main Protestant church since...
Catholic countries in modern times. Often such crowns were kept in the churchtreasury except for special occasions such as relevant feast-days, when they...
Dolezalek, Isabelle (30 May 2013). "Textile Connections? Two Ifrīqiyan ChurchTreasuries in Norman Sicily and the Problem of Continuity across Political Change"...
papal treasury came chiefly from many kinds of censuses, dues, and tributes paid in from the territory subject to the Pope, and from churches and monasteries...
original cross, for better safekeeping, was transferred to the churchtreasury, leaving the treasury of the Holy Crosses. During his studies of the Cross of...
(except for the kettledrum sticks) were stored in the Sich's Pokrova churchtreasury and were taken out only on a special order of kish otaman. The kettledrum...
taking the Churchtreasury of the Vatican Basilica along with him. He is succeeded by Benedict VII as the 135th pope of the Catholic Church. An abbey is...
Jerusalem. During the reign of King John (1199–1216) it served as the royal treasury, supported by the role of the Knights Templar as proto-international bankers...
stories which also extends around the three apses to the east. The churchtreasury contains some of the finest Dalmatian metalwork; notably the pastoral...
media related to Halberstadt Cathedral. Evangelical Church Halberstadt (in German) Cathedral and Treasury Halberstadt (in German) 51°53′46″N 11°2′57″E /...
Middle Ages. The church is not to be mistaken with the cave church called St. Peter. A version of the Holy Lance was found in the treasury of the cathedral...