reliquary

How To Use reliquary In A Sentence

• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• In another essay, he described his experience at a Buddhist monastery that housed a reliquary said to contain a bone of the Buddha.
• 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.
• 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.