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The images shared on Friday showed the Chicago-born Pope wearing a green robe while standing behind a makeshift altar on the tenth floor of the hospital.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The election of Leo XIV as Pope "touched something inside me," said Kawakami, who will be among the altar servers at the papal mass.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

An altar in the home of a practitioner of an African diasporic religion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

There, on the banks of the Almone, he finds the Bosco Sacro, a “sacred grove” composed of “several ancient holm pines arranged in a perfect circle” around what must once have been a pagan altar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Clytius fell without a sound, face-first in the rubble of Hades’s altar.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

In a middle-class neighborhood, altars, crucifixes, and images of the Pope adorn the home of Joaquin Kawakami Effio, a 15-year-old who is considering the priesthood.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The opera opens in the real world, as drably attired villagers assemble marigold- and candle-festooned Day of the Dead altars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

In England during the Reformation it was not only the altars that were stripped, but also sites in the landscape which were associated with animacy.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

A trailblazer in Chicano art, Amalia Mesa-Bains is known for her reimagining of traditional Mexican altars and offerings and her presentations of Mexican American women’s spirituality.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

Of course the temple and the two altars had to be decorated, too.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder