reliquary

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Nearby, the importance of France is announced by a 17th-century gilt reliquary, a cross flanked by free-standing angels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 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

There are 1,500 new wooden chairs for the congregation, and a new reliquary behind the choir to hold the Crown of Thorns.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

A fragment of that relic was returned in the 1930s to Brigidine Sisters elsewhere in Ireland and is stored in a small metal reliquary, shaped like an oak tree, an image associated with Brigid.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

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