alms box

Yet not quite like any he had seen before in the alms boxes.

I was with him when he dropped some coins into our alms box.

Coins fall down the pipe to the alms box in the kitchen.

The alms box permits donations only and does not issue cash.

A local journalist reported that residents from other parts of town had dropped by just to see the alms box in action.

Give us something out of the alms box?

Also of interest is the wooden alms box which has a carved open palm on top and stands by the south door.

I filled the cardboard alms boxes they handed to us at catechism class.

Its origins may have something to do with church alms boxes, which were opened at Christmas and their contents distributed to the poor.

Also on the south wall is a simple alms box bearing the inscription "Remember the Poor 1684".

"The electronic alms box is one more way, an up-to-date method, in keeping with the times.

The wagon roof is thought to be 13th-century and an alms box by the door is from 1634.

The church also contains a Victorian wheeled coffin bier, and a wooden alms box.

In addition to the alms box that Henry forced swearers to contribute to, he made sure his household attended church services.

"Some people have accepted it," Father Asenjo said of the new alms box.

An alms box is a strong chest or box often fastened to the wall of a church to receive offerings for the poor.

An alms box, carved from a single piece of wood, is carved with an inscription and the date 1639.

The electronic alms box is the brainchild of Father Gonzalez, who once saw a similar machine at a charitable society in London.

He even managed a small weekly offering in one of the the ten-million-odd alms boxes the Gradygroats maintained throughout the city.

Cadfael encounters Rafe putting coins in the alms box.

He worked on the choirstalls and their canopy and made figures for the sanctuary niches and an alms box.

The font is circa 1500 but was recut in 1851 to the original design, and the old alms box is thought to be 17th century.

The explanations quickly followed the installation of a bank machine, dubbed the electronic alms box, in the entrance of San Claudio's Church.

He held out the coin, and Rafe took it as gravely, and with deliberation dropped it after its fellows into the alms box.

The Spanish Episcopal Conference in Madrid said the electronic alms box was believed to be the first of its kind in Spain.