Reliquaries are exposed in the Nave, near the barrier.
When the procession reached a certain spot, the reliquarieswere set down, and a mock fight began between two mummers.
Other bust-reliquaries belong, or have belonged, to the Cathedrals of Burgos and Toledo.
Labarte says that the lids of these enamelledreliquaries were flat until the twelfth century, and of a gable form thenceforward.
It is certain that then we did not adore God alone, but wood and stones instead of him, the pictures, the reliquaries of the dead, and things of a like kind.
And what devotion is there to place reliance in candles and torches, in beautiful and sumptuous equipage, in images, in reliquaries of the dead?
In any case it is mainly of the same date as the church, which cannot be said of the reliquaries in the treasury, that are also supposed to have survived the Revolution.
Louis; an ivory Virgin, and thirty reliquaries of the 13th and 14th centuries.
The reliquaries shown at the cathedral are mostly modern imitations of those which were formerly in the Ste.
The reliquaries were of course all melted up, even Alexandre Lenoir could not save them.
All these objects, and one or two others which it is needless to mention, were enclosed in the reliquaries which either stood or hung in the great châsse.
Cavalcaselle supposes this to have been the fourth of the reliquaries once in Santa Maria Novella, but it more probably belongs to that small painting reproduced by Prof.
Some of the photographs of the reliquaries were not quite successful, and the next year we returned to make others, taking with us some copies which we had promised to send to the bishop.
Two portable altars with inlaid reliquaries in patriarchal crosses were seen by Eitelberger, with fine figure subjects; on one the Virgin and S.
The objects are scarcely so interesting as those at the cathedral, but include several fine fourteenth-century reliquaries as well as one or two which were made, or remade, in Renaissance times.
Two reliquaries of the twelfth century described by Eitelberger and Mr. T.
Reliquaries containing parts of the Red Cross upon which the Savior was crucified, including the reliquaries in Poitiers and Limoges, are double traverse in form.
These reliquaries were distributed by him to his daughters, or any ladies of the court of great acknowledged piety.
They would lower the reliquaries on some other day than the 24th, would they?
An inventory of the jewelled cups andreliquaries of Queen Jeanne of Navarre, about 1570, reads like a museum.
Good examples of translucent enamels in relief may be seen on several of the reliquaries at Aix la Chapelle.
The treasury contains a silver bust containing part of the skull, and reliquaries for arm and thigh bones of the Saint; some of these reliquaries are of the 15th cent.
Footnote 91: They melted down thereliquaries in the Paris churches.
The Leaguers fought and suffered with the utmost constancy; reliquaries were melted down for money, church bells for cannon, and the clergy and religious orders were caught by the military enthusiasm.
The Treasury included many reliquariesand holy objects of priceless value, such as the reliquary of Sanson (twelfth century); that of SS.
But even these last were taken out of the reliquaries which held them, as the said reliquaries were made of gold and of silver, or of crystal and amber curiously wrought, and so Knut would carry them away with him.
Footnote 208: It is interesting to compare with this work the carving--identical in technique--on reliquaries of rock crystal of Carlovingian date.
A few insignificant little bowls and some small flasks that have served as reliquaries have been preserved in the treasuries of German churches (Plate XXI.
Apart, however, from a few insignificant little bottles, used as reliquaries (Plates XX.
There needs no Vatican, no idolatry of the Pope, no superstitious images, no shrines of healing and reliquaries to explain His sublime intention!
In this Ospizio are three reliquarieswhich Fra Angelico painted for S.
Among its treasures once were the three reliquaries painted by Fra Angelico, but they are now at S.
The most famous of early pendent reliquaries was that worn by the Emperor Charlemagne, which contained relics from the Crown of Thorns and the True Cross, presented to him by Haroun al-Raschid.
Portable reliquaries in former times were often made of two plates of rock crystal or other transparent stones hinged together so as to form a box.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reliquaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
