reliquaries in English

noun
1
a container for holy relics.
As the importance of saints and their relics increased, reliquaries and image-bearing objects, such as small statues, began to be placed upon the altar.

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1. One way of showing them respect was to enclose them in reliquaries and enrich these with precious substances.

2. Metalwork continued to be the most prestigious form of art, with Limoges enamel a popular and relatively affordable option for objects such as reliquaries and crosses.

3. Cruets & Trays; Eastern Rite/Orthodox Communion ; Flagons & Decanters ; Intinction Sets ; Monstrances ; Patens ; Pewter Communion Ware ; Portable Communion Sets ; Pretium Collections- Value Chalices & Ciboria ; Reliquaries

4. Throughout the centuries, many pectoral crosses have been made in the form of reliquaries which contain alleged fragments of the True Cross or relics of saints.

5. Suzanne Delehanty has described the "Technological Reliquaries" as "a protest against pop arts ready acceptance of mass production and minimalism's idealization of technology." One would agree that they subvert those dominant modes of the '60s, whether humorously or in outright Antipathy