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At the intimate end of the exhibition's spectrum is a bejeweled 14th-century French reliquary pendant that opens to reveal multiple leaves with gorgeously colored enamel scenes from the life of Christ, for contemplation by the magnificent object's wealthy owner.
Where Revered Relics Repose
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Lourdes (France): The reliquary Schrine of Saint Bernadette (Le reliquaire)
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The gold buckle does not feel like a real dress item, and may have been a reliquary, its hollow box once containing a sacred fragment of bone or textile.
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Thus, when the reliquary was exhibited from the outdoor pulpit on feast days sacred to the Virgin Mary, a strong visual bond between the reliquary and the church in which it was kept could be discerned.
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The reliquary bust's shoulders were made to look as if draped in a rich brocade, and it has a removable silk and enameled silver miter.
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One continued along a sequence of glass-fronted niches, like the compartments of a reliquary or the card-by-card disclosure of a Tarot hand.
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According to an old custom the reliquary of St Genevieve is never exposed without that of St Marcel.
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She also appears on a carved ivory reliquary of Brescia, which is most likely not later in date than 800 (D.C. A. art.
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This informal presentation enhanced the sense that one was being invited to uncover personal secrets, or to peer inside a reliquary.
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In the main prayer hall we stood before a reliquary said to contain the head of Zachariah, father of John the Baptist.
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There is also a brief homily on the saints and the universal call to holiness, night prayer, and a candlelight procession to the cloister's reliquary while chanting the Litany of the Saints.
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A lot of people are under the impression that the reliquary will be something similar to that of St. Therese of Lisieux which visited the Shrine two years ago.
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The reliquary bust's shoulders were made to look as if draped in a rich brocade, and it has a removable silk and enameled silver miter.
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Between 1422 and 1425 a new reliquary was made for Saint Philip's arm.
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Having established that it cannot have been a tabernacle, the only other possible purpose is a reliquary.
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The huge response of people in turning out to see the reliquary which contains some of the bones of St. Thérèse is heralded by many in the Catholic Church as a clear sign of a resurgence in spirituality and faith.
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Among the ecclesiastical treasures the Nazis had sheltered was a reliquary containing a sliver purported to be from the True Cross, a burse or relic box with soil soaked with the blood of the martyr Saint Stephen, a tiny casket with threads from the robe worn by the apostle John, links from a chain that shackled Saint Paul, and an ostensory, or holy container, with a bone of legendary Theban legionnaire Mauritius, otherwise known as Saint Maurice.
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There was a hand-shaped reliquary containing an arm-bone (of St. John the Baptist?), which pointed at the sky just like John the Baptist is always shown doing.
Reliquaries: Saints Preserve(d for) Us!
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The earlier part of the Saint Philip reliquary is its late trecento gilded silver base, which also serves as a container for relics.
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The next altar on the epistle side is the altar of priests, dedicated to St. John Nepomucene, whose incorrupt tongue in a reliquary is shown in the upper painting (I don't know the technical term in English for this part of the altar; in German it is the "Auszug"), flanked by Saints Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas a Becket.
Neuzelle Abbey
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It is now accepted in art circles that the belt was a reliquary or shrine.
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The altar-frontal at Pistoja belongs to about the same period, and a little later comes the reliquary made by the brothers Arezzo, while during the whole of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the enamellers were kept hard at work in Italy producing objects intended for Church work in two or three distinct processes, either that called champleve, or another method, that of floating transparent enamels, known by the name of bassetaille, or still another process called encrusting.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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The most distinctive part of the reliquary is its cupola, a small ogival crystal vault divided into six sections by ribs decorated with crockets.
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Yet the exhibition overall is beset by an archival feeling, which is abetted by the period posters and reliquary vitrines housing pamphlets and first editions.
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The reliquary will remain in Church Street until 7.30 pm tomorrow when it will be moved across the Liffey to Merchants Quay church where there will be short period for veneration.
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It is what many observers feel will be the most important religious event in this country since the Papal visit in 1979, with the Diocese of Ferns to have the honour of being the first to receive the reliquary.
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Later still the term confession was adopted for the hollow reliquary in an altar (Ordo Rom. de dedic. altaris).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Here he took a small golden reliquary, which was suspended from his neck next to his shirt by a chain of the same metal, and having kissed it devoutly, continued — “Never was false oath sworn on this most sacred relique, but it was avenged within the year.”
Quentin Durward
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The Saint Philip reliquary is one of the best preserved of the reliquaries from the Florentine baptistery, but its original appearance has undergone a significant transformation.
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In another essay, he described his experience at a Buddhist monastery that housed a reliquary said to contain a bone of the Buddha.
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He displayed it in a reliquary at a liturgical station at the hospital of S. Spirito, to commemorate the Feast of the Wedding at Cana.
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At Louvain, the three ornate facades are sculptural in a conventional sense, completely encrusted with baldachins and statues, the surfaces richly worked like a monumental reliquary.
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The red velvet background of the reliquary is studded with precious gems and valuable ornaments donated by her grateful clients.
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In a precious reliquary is preserved a lacrimatory in which, according to a pious legend, Nicodemus collected some drops of the Blood of Christ.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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The same must be true of late medieval and early modern metalwork, and the Saint Philip reliquary is just one of a number of significant reliquaries whose form was inspired by, but does not exactly reproduce, specific buildings.
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Resting, appropriately, on mortuary trestles, the piece is a kind of reliquary for the doomed 1854 vessel that was designed to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
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The relic reposes in a glass-fronted reliquary beneath a side altar of the same church in which it was first interred.
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Its gable shape stands as the prototype of features noted in important Irish art treasures such as the gabled top of the Monasterboice Muireadach sculptured Cross and the gable shape of the Moneymusk reliquary (a case for relics of Colmcille, preserved from 1315 in Moneymusk House and now in the Edinburgh Museum.)
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Snicker at the sight of someone praying in front of a golden reliquary that houses a shard of bone or a skin fragment from a medieval saint or a pope.
Shroud of Turin is real enough
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Within the range of Gabonese postage, a significant number of stamps celebrate indigenous musical instruments and reliquary art forms.
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Though some of the pieces were difficult to see, especially the small reliquary boxes in the ambulatory, the overall effect was well worth the loss of an occasional detail.
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The most distinctive part of the reliquary is its cupola, a small ogival crystal vault divided into six sections by ribs decorated with crockets.
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The tour of the reliquary of St Therese of Lisieux began in April, 2001, and reopened aspects of a debate simmering since 1979.
