reliquary

It came in a rigid plastic triangle sealed with peel-and-stick film—a transparent reliquary for something nobody revered.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

This is an interesting car, with a strange, reliquary feel about it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

The reliquary itself, held in the square’s church, was a series of exceedingly odd musical interactions between vocalists and the instruments in a combination of rap session and organized mystical service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

Inside an ornate reliquary perched within a glass case on a pedestal lie pieces of bone, the knee caps and hair of Bernadette Soubirous.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022

Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The mesmerizing array of paintings, frescoes, statues, chalices, candelabra, vestments, reliquaries and ornate wooden crucifixes can be overwhelming for the visitor.

From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022

Some 40 pieces of the collection, including reliquaries and crosses, are on display in a state-run museum in Berlin.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2020

One is the elongated, slender triangular face with raised, ritual scarifications familiar from so-called Kota reliquaries made in Gabon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2019

This exhibition is something of a reunion: In the early 1400s, the Renaissance artist Fra Angelico did four reliquaries depicting events in the life of the Virgin Mary.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018

We’ve finished the Mediaeval period, with its reliquaries and elongated saints, and are speeding through the Renaissance, hitting the high points.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood