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What is a reliquary?

What is a reliquary? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A container to hold or display religious relics.
  2. (figuratively) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
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The harmonious, balanced contours of reliquary guardian figures convey a sense of tranquility highly valued in both art and life in Fang culture.
In another essay, he described his experience at a Buddhist monastery that housed a reliquary said to contain a bone of the Buddha.
The most distinctive part of the reliquary is its cupola, a small ogival crystal vault divided into six sections by ribs decorated with crockets.
A traditional ex-voto figure would have shown the duke kneeling, his hands folded in prayer, without the reliquary or Saint George.
In the main prayer hall we stood before a reliquary said to contain the head of Zachariah, father of John the Baptist.
One continued along a sequence of glass-fronted niches, like the compartments of a reliquary or the card-by-card disclosure of a Tarot hand.

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