Wikipedia's article on votive offerings, objects deposited or displayed in fulfillment of a vow across many religious traditions, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on votive offerings, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Olympia bronze statuettes, the deliberate breaking of objects before deposition, the Vienna Votive Church's 1853 founding, and the continuation of the practice in Mexican milagros and Lutheran Sweden.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votive_offering
Source Typereference
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