Treasure
The treasure contains a wealth of precious items:
- Clothing from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, either Portuguese or Oriental.
- Sumptuous objects used in religious services.
- A Hispano-Arab casket of the 10th century in Ivory.
- An Iron Cross before which Frei Henrique de Coimbra celebrated the first Mass in Brazil after the arrival of Pedro Álvares Cabral.
- Numerous objects of gold, silver and precious stones used for services, like crosses, chalices among others.
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Famous quotes containing the word treasure:
“Love was as subtly catched, as a disease;
But being got it is a treasure sweet,
Which to defend is harder than to get:
And ought not be profaned on either part,
For though ‘tis got by chance,’tis kept by art.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“Ye tradeful Merchants, that, with weary toil,
Do seek most precious things to make your gain,
And both the Indias of their treasure spoil,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 6:19-21.