The round painting above the reredos is of Christ ascending to Heaven, and has been a treasured icon to generations of Cathedral parishioners.

Manolete was the country's most treasured cultural icon.

That he had not expected, and to attack one of America's most treasured icons would be sweet indeed.

"Santa Claus is a treasured icon for children," said Eric Helmuth, spokesman for Join Together, a Boston University health group that is fighting the jolly pub crawl.

In 1892, Derby gave Canada a treasured national icon - the Stanley Cup.

I Map The most treasured icon in Macau, the facade and stairway are all that remain of this early-17th-century Jesuit church, called Tai Sam Ba in Cantonese.

He's featured in a new play where even a treasured icon is not sacrosanct.

Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/visit Visit the Smithsonian and you will see why it represents for so many the treasured icons of our past, the vibrant art of the present, and the scientific promise of the future.

In the 1960s he shocked the cognoscenti by setting his trailblazing modern movement to music composed 200 years earlier, and he inflamed the establishment by lampooning America's most treasured icons.

Has a treasured icon been transmogrified as a sales gimmick?