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reliquary::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of reliquary
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The faithful often venerate relics by bowing before the reliquary or kissing it.
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There must have been some saint on that table, in a glass case or a reliquary.
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Today we have very few reliquary caskets that have survived from the 12th century.
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It is preserved today in a 19th century reliquary, in Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris.
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Jean, Duc de Berry, commissioned a gold and enamelled reliquary to house his.
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The reliquary is then placed in front of the church, to be kissed by the believers.
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The cathedral treasury houses a reliquary with the purported Crown of Thorns.
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See also an image of the Gothic reliquary dating from the 13th century, in Histor.ws.
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It is preserved today in a 19th-century reliquary, in Notre Dame de Paris.
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- A container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)
- A reliquary (also referred to as a shrine or by the French term chu00E2sse) is a container for relics. These may be the purported or actual physical remains of saints, such as bones, pieces of clothing, or some object associated with saints or other religious figures...
- Reliquary is the 1997 New York Times best-selling sequel to Relic, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The legacy of the blood-maddened Mbwun lives on in "Reliquary", but the focus is shifted from the original museum setting to the tunnels beneath the streets of New York City.
- A container for the preservation of relics of a saint.
- A container, often richly ornamented, holding the remains of a saint which can be displayed to the faithful.
- A box in which the relic of a saint is kept
- (Fr., "remains") A receptacle for storing or displaying holy relics.
- Small box, casket, or shrine for keeping a relic
- A container for relics. Often reliquaries were in the form of caskets, though it was quite common for them to be shaped like statues or body parts (such as hands or heads).
