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Definition of Reliquaries
1. reliquary [n] - See also: reliquary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reliquaries
Literary usage of Reliquaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"They are the creators of the two most beautiful reliquaries of this whole period ;
Godefroi wrought the shrine of St. Heribert at Deutz (1185), and Nicholas ..."
2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"... according to art, it ought to have reached from wall to wall, which it does
not, the empty places are filled up with two reliquaries on each fide, ..."
3. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"... Romanesque Reliquary of St. Ursula, several other reliquaries of the Gothic
period, a carved rock-crystal chessman of the ..."
4. The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob, James Dafforne (1870)
"Shrines and reliquaries.— Gratings and Iron-mountings. E shall be readily believed
when we assert that the furniture used by our remote ancestors, ..."
5. Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History: Delivered at by Eugene O'Curry (1861)
"... however brief, the other numerous objects of ecclesiastical art which have
come down to us, such as reliquaries, Bells, Croziers, Crosses, etc., etc. ..."
6. Ecclesiasstical Art in Germany During the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Lübke, Leonard Abercrombie Wheatley (1870)
"RELIC-HOLDERS, reliquaries. reliquaries belong, from the early Romanesque times,
to those specially favourite objects of veneration which were decorated ..."
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