| The doctors who were tending to the Pope during his final hours are auctioning off a sample of the Pope's blood as a holy relic. |
| Thus, Aristotle's teleological ideas were able to fossilize into a relic that was used as the template against which new ideas were tested. |
| By the 1840s, however, there was growing interest in antiques, and this bowl may well have been given to the church as a historical relic. |
| The holy relic is believed to protect the 25 sq. km. former Portuguese colony, on the doorstep of China, from natural disasters. |
| She took tea with her remaining admirers, but in the age of beat poetry and the apolitical pursuit of rapture, seemed something of a relic. |
| A couple of hundred feet above us, on a small knoll, stood a deserted fort, a relic from the French occupation. |
