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- noun Plural form of
reliquary .
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- stunning vestments, vessels and reliquaries from the diocesan museum
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The cases then can be placed in larger items for display, which then are called reliquaries and also count as a third-class relic for hosting the first-class relic.
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The cases then can be placed in larger items for display, which then are called reliquaries and also count as a third-class relic for hosting the first-class relic.
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Although these specimens of antique jewelry set with emeralds may be numbered by the score or more in the museums and "reliquaries" of Europe, but very few engraved emeralds have descended to us from ancient times: This rarity is not due to the hardness of the stone, for the ancient lapidaries cut the difficult and still harder sapphire: therefore we must believe the statement of the early gem-writers that the emerald was exempted from the glyptic art by common consent on account of its beauty and costliness.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various
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Displayed works include rare bronze Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from Gandhara and Swat; significant stupas of differing sizes, styles, and materials; reliquaries in precious materials such as gold and silver; 'pilgrimage' items; and important Buddhas recovered from early Chinese cultures.
Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana: A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman Mike Ragogna 2010
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Among Christians, the veneration of relics has traditionally been strongest among the Orthodox and Catholics, who, beginning in the second century, created ever more ornate reliquaries to display the sacred objects.
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Even the 12 statues of the apostles, each of which stands on a platform between two windows, and all of which are carved so they look like they are the pillars holding up the Sainte-Chapelle, are similar to the embossed figures that decorate reliquaries.
The Parisian Jewel for the Jerusalem Crown Ina Caro 2011
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Among Christians, the veneration of relics has traditionally been strongest among the Orthodox and Catholics, who, beginning in the second century, created ever more ornate reliquaries to display the sacred objects.
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Displayed works include rare bronze Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from Gandhara and Swat; significant stupas of differing sizes, styles, and materials; reliquaries in precious materials such as gold and silver; 'pilgrimage' items; and important Buddhas recovered from early Chinese cultures.
Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana : A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman Mike Ragogna 2010
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Displayed works include rare bronze Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from Gandhara and Swat; significant stupas of differing sizes, styles, and materials; reliquaries in precious materials such as gold and silver; 'pilgrimage' items; and important Buddhas recovered from early Chinese cultures.
Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana: A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman Mike Ragogna 2010
nextcase commented on the word reliquaries
My dear friend, George Gregor of India House, is their reliquarian, as well as for the Class of 1962, Stuyvesant H. S., N.Y.C.
November 17, 2009
nextcase commented on the word reliquaries
See "reliquarian", logical extension of personage caring for a "reliquary".
November 17, 2009