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- The mite boxes are collected by the church, and the donations are given to the poor.
- Contemporary mite boxes are usually made of cardboard and given out to church congregations during the Lenten season.
- The Mite box giving promotes the spirit of contributing based on the intent to help others and not on the monetary amount.
- Mite boxes are popular with children because they can fill them with small change, teaching them the principle of giving to the poor.
- He converting a 200-pound bomb from the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807 which had been found in Dybensgade into a mite box.
- Pope Innocent III, at the end of twelfth century, allowed " some " "'mite boxes "'to be placed in churches so that the faithful people may at any time dispose their alms.
- A single remaining painted glass window remains, a baptismal font from the 13th century and an oddity : a mite box in stone, which is signed by the stonemason in runes, " Lafrans made this stone ".