"treasure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In order to pay these taxes gold and silver artefacts from the church treasure were melted down or sold.
- Due to financial problems, most of the church treasure had to be sold.
- "But everywhere else," Sharpe said, "the church treasures are hidden!"
- Within months the French were closing convents and seizing church treasures.
- Many of the church treasures were lost during this period.
- Today the church treasure is only a fraction of what it once was.
- During restoration works in 1997 there came to light some of the old church treasure: relics, textiles and reliquaries.
- Monks were killed in the abbey, thrown into the sea to drown, or carried away as slaves along with the church treasures.
- Moreover, there is no complete inventory of Italy's religious art, and so church treasures are often untraceable.
- The property, church treasure and choir pews were sold.
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