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Holy card
A holy card, also called a prayer card or estampita, is a small Catholic devotional card with a saint's image on one side and a prayer on the other.
Holy Chalice
The Holy Chalice is the cup of the Last Supper in Christian tradition, identified with the Arthurian Grail; the chief relic claimant is the Santo Cáliz of Valencia Cathedral, an agate cup with medieval gold additions, rivaled by Genoa's Sacro Catino and León's Doña Urraca chalice.
Holy City, California
Holy City, California was a utopian community and tourist stop in the Santa Cruz Mountains, founded in 1919 by "Father" William E. Riker's Perfect Christian Divine Way, marked by white supremacist preaching, and defunct after his 1969 death.
Holy Cow (2024 film)
Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux) is a 2024 French coming-of-age drama, Louise Courvoisier's debut, set in the Jura. Teen Totone enters a Comté cheese contest for €30,000; it won Cannes' Youth Award and two Césars.
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City: Catholic cemetery and mortuary of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, opened 1939 on Rancho La Ballona land; known for its Kado grotto and celebrity burials including Bela Lugosi and Sharon Tate.
Holy Cross Day
Holy Cross Day, kept on 14 September and also called the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, is a Christian feast honoring the cross of Christ, observed by Anglican, Lutheran, Catholic, and Orthodox churches.
Holy Cross dispute
The Holy Cross dispute (2001–2003) was a loyalist protest on Belfast's Ardoyne Road blocking Catholic girls from Holy Cross Primary School, with riot-police escorts, blast bombs, a £3m policing bill, and a January 2003 pipe bomb.
Holy Crown of Hungary
Holy Crown of Hungary (Szent Korona, Stephanskrone): medieval coronation crown with Byzantine hoop (Corona Graeca) and Latin cross-strap (Corona Latina), first named 1256, returned from Fort Knox in 1978, displayed in the Hungarian Parliament since 2000.
Holy day of obligation
A holy day of obligation, also called a feast of precept, is a day on which the Catholic Church requires the faithful to attend Mass and rest from work.
Holy Days (film)
Holy Days is a 2026 New Zealand-Canada comedy-drama road movie directed by Nathalie Boltt, adapted from Joy Cowley's novel, starring Judy Davis, Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver, and Elijah Tamati as a boy and three nuns saving their convent.
Holy Diver
Holy Diver is Dio's 1983 multi-Platinum debut album, released May 25, 1983, recorded at Sound City with Ronnie James Dio, Vivian Campbell, Jimmy Bain, and Vinny Appice, featuring Rainbow in the Dark and the title track.
Holy door
The holy door (Porta Santa) is a basilica door the Pope opens at the start of a Jubilee Holy Year, sealed by a wall between Jubilees.
Holy Family
Holy Family (Sagrada familia) is a Spanish-language Netflix drama thriller created and directed by Manolo Caro, starring Najwa Nimri as Gloria, a mother hiding a secret in 1990s Madrid; two seasons, 16 episodes, 2022-2023.
Holy Fire (Ἃγιον Φῶς)
The Holy Fire (Greek: Ἃγιον Φῶς; Arabic: Sabt al-Nūr), also called the Holy Light, is a flame lit at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Holy Saturday.
Holy Goof
Holy Goof is a Coventry-born DJ and producer at the forefront of the UK bassline revival since 2014, blending bassline house, UK garage, and grime.
Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is a legendary sacred vessel from Arthurian romance, first appearing in Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval (c. 1190) and Christianized by Robert de Boron as the Last Supper cup that caught Christ's blood; a literary creation, not a documented relic.
Holy Lance
Holy Lance (Spear of Longinus, Heilige Lanze): relic tradition of the spear that pierced Christ's side in John 19:34. Several claimants exist; the best known, Vienna's 8th-century Carolingian imperial lance, is not first-century.
Holy Land (ארץ הקודש)
The Holy Land (ארץ הקודש, Eretz HaKodesh) is the southern Levant territory sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, also called Palestine since AD 134; its boundaries are unfixed and it centers on Jerusalem's shared holy sites.
Holy Land Experience
The Holy Land Experience was a Bible-themed amusement park and living biblical museum in Orlando, Florida, opened in 2001 by Marvin Rosenthal, later owned by TBN, closed in 2021 and sold to AdventHealth.
Holy Motors
Holy Motors is a 2012 fantasy-drama film by Leos Carax, his first feature since Pola X (1999), in which Denis Lavant's Monsieur Oscar is driven around Paris by Edith Scob's Céline while playing 11 roles across a day of mysterious appointments; it competed at Cannes 2012.
Holy Nail
The Holy Nails are Christian relics venerated as the nails used to crucify Jesus, said to have been found with the True Cross by Empress Helena in the fourth century.
Holy Name Cathedral (Chicago)
Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago's Catholic cathedral at 735 N. State St., seat of the Archdiocese of Chicago; Gothic Revival building by Patrick C. Keely, dedicated 1875 after the Great Chicago Fire, renovated 1888-93, 1914, 1968-69, and 2008-09.
Holy Night: Demon Hunters
Holy Night: Demon Hunters (거룩한 밤: 데몬 헌터스) is a 2025 South Korean occult action horror film directed by Lim Dae-hee, starring Don Lee, Seohyun, and Lee Da-wit as demon hunters fighting a cult in Seoul; released April 30, 2025, unrelated to KPop Demon Hunters.
Holy of Holies (קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים)
The Holy of Holies (Hebrew: Kodesh Hakodashim) was the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle and Jerusalem Temples, which only the high priest could enter, once a year on Yom Kippur.
Holy orders
Holy orders, also called Christian ordination, is the Catholic sacrament conferring the ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons in three degrees, defined as a true sacrament by the Council of Trent in 1563.
Holy Prepuce
The Holy Prepuce, also called the Holy Foreskin, is a relic venerated in medieval Europe as the foreskin of Jesus, claimed by up to eighteen churches before the last vanished in 1983.
Holy Priest
Holy Priest is a masked German electronic producer and DJ in hard techno, rawstyle, and hardcore who runs the label FXCK and ranked 8th among Beatport's top-selling Hard Dance artists of 2024.
Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor: elected head of the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), also called King of the Romans before papal coronation. Defined by the Golden Bull of 1356's seven electors and long Habsburg dominance until Francis II's 1806 abdication.
Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire (962–1806): elective, decentralized central European polity claiming Roman continuity, crowned from Otto I, spanning German lands to northern Italy, dissolved in 1806.
Holy Rosary Parish Church (Angeles City)
Holy Rosary Parish Church (Pisamban Maragul), Angeles City, Pampanga: Romanesque stone church built 1877–1896 to Antonio de la Camara's design, an Important Cultural Property, elevated by Pope Leo XIV to Pampanga's first minor basilica in 2026.