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Sentence Examples A traditional ex-voto figure would have shown the duke kneeling, his hands folded in prayer, without the reliquary or Saint George. This informal presentation enhanced the sense that one was being invited to uncover personal secrets, or to peer inside a reliquary. 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. The earlier part of the Saint Philip reliquary is its late trecento gilded silver base, which also serves as a container for relics. Having established that it cannot have been a tabernacle, the only other possible purpose is a reliquary. Within the range of Gabonese postage, a significant number of stamps celebrate indigenous musical instruments and reliquary art forms. 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. The harmonious, balanced contours of reliquary guardian figures convey a sense of tranquility highly valued in both art and life in Fang culture. The reliquary bust's shoulders were made to look as if draped in a rich brocade, and it has a removable silk and enameled silver miter. In the main prayer hall we stood before a reliquary said to contain the head of Zachariah, father of John the Baptist. The most distinctive part of the reliquary is its cupola, a small ogival crystal vault divided into six sections by ribs decorated with crockets. This reliquary is carried around the village during the procession on the 2nd Sunday of July. Each procession is set around reliquary floats, or pasos, which are created and assembled according to complex rules. The reliquary is the heart of the Shrine because it contains the indisputable evidence of the event: The tears of Mary. There are also plans to take the reliquary from the airport in Wabush to nearby Labrador City by dogsled. Inside are a baptismal font, probably Romanesque, several baroque altarpieces, two wooden reliquary boxes and a medieval candelabrum. On August 5th the bones were solemnly transported to a Sozopol church and sealed in a silver reliquary donated by the prime minister. Pilgrim badges were souvenirs of these journeys and, if brought into contact with the church's reliquary, holy objects themselves. The organizers expect more than two million people will have visited the reliquary by the end of the tour. Show More Sentences It seems that this cross was nailed to a wooden box as a reliquary in the Church of St Stephen at Umm al-Rasas. It takes its name from Palencia Cathedral where it was found in use as a reliquary. Whether it is the Nike of Samothrace or a parish reliquary in Corrèze, this additional value given to the work must be taken into account. There is a reliquary containing the bones of her right arm in the Basilica. This morning the gaze of all was directed to the reliquary in the sanctuary that contains his remains. The current sacristy, formerly the reliquary, boasts a wall decoration of grotto motifs, whilst its vault boasts fresco paintings with angels. Resting, appropriately, on mortuary trestles, the piece is a kind of reliquary for the doomed 1854 vessel that was designed to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable. Every January 1, the priest would lead a procession with the relic and its 18th-century reliquary. Father Thomas Michelet, having accompanied the reliquary from Sainte-Baume to New York, was surprised by the turnout. The gold buckle does not feel like a real dress item, and may have been a reliquary, its hollow box once containing a sacred fragment of bone or textile. Between 1422 and 1425 a new reliquary was made for Saint Philip's arm. A lot of people are under the impression that the reliquary will be something similar to that of St. Therese of Lisieux which visited the Shrine two years ago. Though some of the pieces were difficult to see, especially the small reliquary boxes in the ambulatory, the overall effect was well worth the loss of an occasional detail. It is now accepted in art circles that the belt was a reliquary or shrine. 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. Tradition has it that as the reliquary was carried to the high altar of Dunfermline Abbey, past Malcolm's grave, it became too heavy to move. This relic is contained in a silver reliquary that is also in the church. Gold and enamel pendant reliquary in the form of a cross. The main artistic output of the period is represented by a reliquary, a heavy candlestick, an enamelled cup, and an evangeliarium, laid out around the artist. Later it was brought to France where Louis IX paid 135,000 livres for it in 1239, nearly four times what he spent constructing the Sainte-Chapelle, the exquisite reliquary chapel built to house it. Show More Sentences The reliquary floats are adorned with ornate, flower-decked wooden statues, most of which date from the late eighteenth century and depict the Easter story. The masterpiece of the treasure is Sainte-Foy's reliquary statue. Saint Foy was a young woman who was martyrized and killed in Agen, during the 5th century. Enshrined in a beautiful reliquary was part of St Dominic's cranium. Louis XI gave, in 1475, the crown of Margaret of York, and, in 1481, another arm reliquary of Charlemagne. The building was built in the early seventeenth century with a style of Herrera and stresses inside the altar and reliquary containing the blood of San Gennaro uncorrupted and Saint Pantaleon. The reliquary with some fragments of cross of Christ, according to a legend, was given to the convent in the 12th century by Saint Henry, the son of St. Stephan I, King of Hungary. Its interior conserves an extensive collection of Arabic chests, medieval jewel cases and a beautiful Gothic reliquary made from enamel from Limousin. On 19 June 1250, following the canonisation of Malcolm's wife Margaret by Pope Innocent IV, Margaret's remains were disinterred and placed in a reliquary. The 8th century Monymusk Reliquary has elements of Pictish and Irish style. Base of the Holy Thorn Reliquary, a Resurrection of the Dead in gold, enamel and gems. Examples from Classical Literature The chaplain, holding the reliquary in his hands by the stem I have spoken of. It is goldsmith's work on a gigantic scale, this marble reliquary of the archangelic painter. To this was sometimes suspended a pomander-box, tablets, or a pendent reliquary. This is the fifth time to-day that the procession goes its round, that the reliquary is borne on high, to exorcize the calamity. She rushed for a little box which she had converted into a sort of reliquary. A golden chain, to which was attached a small reliquary of the same metal, hung round her neck. Jane brought it to Con as to the proper keeper of the reliquary. It is circular in form, and was probably intended as a reliquary. In the reliquary at Berlin, the figures of the saints are too short. In some towns they have, in the cemetery, a bone-house or reliquary. Find more words! 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