A reliquary (also referred to as a shrine, by the French term châsse, and historically also a type of phylactery) is a container for relics. A portable...
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The Baseball Reliquary is a nonprofit educational organization "dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context...
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Reliquary is the 1997 New York Times best-selling sequel to Relic, by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The legacy of the blood-maddened...
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Holy Thorn Reliquary was probably created in the 1390s in Paris for John, Duke of Berry, to house a relic of the Crown of Thorns. The reliquary was bequeathed...
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Treasure of the Holy Crosses (category Christian reliquaries)
century; the reliquary of the Holy Thorns, an early 16th-century work by the Delle Croci from the monastery of Santa Giulia; the reliquary of Bishop Zane's...
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The Rukhuna reliquary, also sometimes Rukhana reliquary, also described as the Bajaur reliquary inscription, is a Scythian reliquary which was dedicated...
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The Monymusk Reliquary is an eighth century Scottish house-shape reliquary made of wood and metal characterised by an Insular fusion of Gaelic and Pictish...
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Fang people (section Reliquary figures)
function as reliquaries and effigies. All are primarily made by the men of the village. There is reason to believe that many of these reliquaries were made...
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Basilica of St. Ursula, Cologne (redirect from Reliquary of St. Ursula)
Saint Ursula are said to have been buried. The church has an impressive reliquary created from the bones of the former occupants of the cemetery. It is...
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The Eadred Reliquary was one of the wide-ranging art forgeries produced by Shaun Greenhalgh and his family, of Bolton, Greater Manchester. In 1989, Shaun...
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invocations and processions with her reliquary during the Middle Ages to highly ritualized ones said before her unveiled reliquary in the years leading up to the...
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The City Reliquary is a not-for-profit community museum and civic organization located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The museum traces the history of New...
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'pride').[citation needed] They are noted for their copper and brass reliquary guardian figures, which are part of a powerful religious and mystical...
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The Reliquary of St. Elizabeth (Swedish: Elisabethrelikvariet) is a reliquary currently displayed in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. The Reliquary...
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Bimaran casket (redirect from Bimaran reliquary)
The Bimaran casket or Bimaran reliquary is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was removed from inside the stupa no.2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad...
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removed from the crown and kept in separate reliquaries since soon after they arrived in France. New reliquaries were provided for the relic, one commissioned...
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The Reliquary of the Santo Corporale (Holy Corporal) of Bolsena is a medieval artwork made by Sienese goldsmith Ugolino di Vieri in 13371338. The reliquary...
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Kanishka Casket (redirect from Kanishka reliquary)
The Kanishka casket or Kanishka reliquary, is a Buddhist reliquary made in gilded copper, and dated to the first year of the reign of the Kushan emperor...
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Bust of Charlemagne (category Christian reliquaries)
Charlemagne (de: Karlsbüste) is a reliquary from around 1350 which contains the top part of Charlemagne's skull. The reliquary is part of the treasure kept...
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The Reliquary of Saint Eustace is a medieval silver and wooden holy container in the shape of Saint Eustace's head that once formed part of Basel Minster's...
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Relic (section Reliquaries)
a form of the Latin verb relinquere, to "leave behind, or abandon". A reliquary is a shrine that houses one or more religious relics. In ancient Greece...
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refer to: One of the thorns from the Crown of Thorns Holy Thorn Reliquary, a reliquary created to hold one of the Holy Thorns The Glastonbury Thorn This...
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small reliquary was discovered under the ruins of a 5th-century monastery on St. Ivan Island, Bulgaria. Local archaeologists opened the reliquary in August...
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by a mute laborer. As the group is caught in a rainstorm, the golden reliquary is struck by lightning but shows no damage, further reinforcing the notion...
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The Reliquary with the Tooth of Saint John the Baptist is a piece from the Guelph Treasure that is owned and displayed by the Art Institute of Chicago...
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The Virgin Reliquaries are four 1434 panel paintings by Fra Giovanni Masi after drawings by Fra Angelico, intended as tabernacle-reliquaries for the Convent...
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containing relics. One of the reliquaries, which is very ornate, is visible nowadays at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The reliquary of Stupa No.2 presents...
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Saint Faith (section Cult and reliquary)
survived, discovered in 1969 hidden behind a refectory wall. The gilded reliquary at Conques was described in Bernard of Angers's Book of Miracles of Sainte...
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Christian martyrs: the reliquary of the apostle Peter, the reliquary bust of the apostle Bartholomew, a Scandinavian reliquary horn with relics of the...
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relics there while a cardinal. They are displayed in a silver and glass reliquary made in Naples in 1713. The host matter consists of a rounded membrane...
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