On the north side is a curious bridge, which was connected with the Reliquary Chapel, now destroyed, situated on the exterior of the church.
There is an old chest or reliquary here with very good iron-work and lock of the thirteenth century.
In the midst of the cortdge, the reliquary containing the relics of Saint Peter and Saint Paul was the object of the devotion of the faithful.
We went to the Church of Saint-Remi; I withdrew the reliquary from the tomb of the saint, and bore it to the sacristy, where I opened it with the aid of small iron pincers.
The Archbishop has the reliquary opened containing the holy ampulla, which is taken from a little chest of gold; he withdraws from it, by means of a golden needle, a particle which he mingles with the holy chrism on the patin.
Then after having kissed the altar and a reliquary in which was a piece of the true cross, the sovereign returned to his apartments in the Archbishop's palace.
Then the living arm was thrust out of the reliquary and waved threateningly over the assembly with a gesture full of despair and irony.
The reliquary contains a piece of the true cross, which is supposed to speak these words.
A reliquary in a closet holds a dozen bits of brass, the rent fusees of exploded shells.
A head reliquary has a fine pierced pattern and a punched border of early Renaissance character, with niello medallions of the Evangelists' symbols.
Peter suggests that it was made up with fragments of several reliquaries, of which other portions have been used in the arm reliquary of S.
Another reliquary has remains of enamel plaques of Christ, the Virgin, Simeon, SS.
An arm reliquarybears the inscription in raised Lombardic letters: "Ego Chacia usor Dimitrii feci fieri hoc opus.
A reliquary of an unknown saint (which Bianchi speaks of as S.
The tradition is that the reliquarywas the gift of Queen Elizabeth of Hungary.
An arm reliquary has pagan subjects in relief, and is set with precious stones.
An interesting reliquary inscribed "Hic est spongia dni quo potat fuit in patibulo crucis" is supported by four dragons without wings, but with raised tails.
The sacristan, who told us that he had filled that position for fifty years, lighted candles before opening the doors, kissed each reliquary before returning it to its place, and insisted upon the authenticity of each relic.
An inscription on the front of the reliquary tomb, which is to the right of the high-altar, and claims to contain the bodies of SS.
That the Domnach is the identical reliquary given by St. Patrick to St. Mac-Carthen.
From this passage we learn one great-cause of the sanctity in which this reliquary was held, and of the uses of the several recesses for reliques which it presents.
It appears from a fragment of an ancient life of St. Mac-Carthen, preserved by Colgan, that a remarkable reliquary was given by St Patrick to that saint when he placed him over the see of Clogher.
As the form of the cumdach indicates that it was intended to receive a book, and as the relics are all attached to the outer and the least ancient cover, it is manifest that the use of the box as a reliquary was not its original intention.
The book contains seventy-nine pages, and is illustrated by an engraving representing the celebrated reliquary in which the blood of the saint is contained.
I rose from bed, and glided like a ghost through the great aisle of the church towards the reliquary chamber.
The cardinal thought that the reliquary to contain the vials of the blood, for which the Tesoro had been built, ought to correspond, as the bust did, with the grandeur of the chapel itself.
As was stated in our preceding article, the Neapolitans hold that the proximity of the relics of the head and the reliquary with the vials of the blood to each other, is ordinarily the sufficient and determining cause of the liquefaction.
We may take these facts as fair evidence that the reliquary is strong, and not very easily opened, and that they who know all about it do not believe that it is or can be regularly opened.
It was found in precisely the same state when the reliquary was again taken out in the May following.
The archbishop was to take part in it, and would himself bear the reliquary of the blood of St. Januarius.
Bishop Douglas with his reliquary “something like an hour-glass” deserves to stand next to him who filled the stem with boiling water.
When the liquefaction takes place in the Tesoro, the reliquary is in the hands of the chaplains, who act in turn, or relieve each other as convenient.
Nineteen instances are recorded in which for various reasons the closet was opened and the reliquary seen in its place.
When it occurs in the procession or in the cathedral, or in some other church, the reliquary is in the charge of the canons, who similarly relieve each other.
So, the old silverreliquary was put up again, that evening, and his eminence was forced to use it on the festival of the 19th for the exposition that year.
The reliquary was taken out of the Armoire, and the glass was fixed again firmly in its place, and the reliquary was returned to its Armoire, before the hour for the public exposition.
The cardinal, it is to be presumed, devoted his rich reliquary to some other pious purpose.
The reliquary might be broken, if they wished; it could not be opened.
Francis Havergal gives a detailed description, which we have condensed to the following:— This reliquary consists of oak, perfectly sound, covered with copper plates overlaid with Limoges enamel.
This reliquary is said to have been originally placed upon the high altar.
The Treasury included many reliquaries and holy objects of priceless value, such as the reliquary of Sanson (twelfth century); that of SS.
Mercedes bestowed her favorite antique reliquary upon her cousin Dolores, gave Mary Lee a tiny silver cross with a figure of San Roque upon it, while Nan received a tambourine.
Around her neck she would wear a long chain with a handsome old reliquary attached to it.
From the reliquary chapel on Good Friday the crucifix and pyx were taken out and deposited in the Easter sepulchre below; and from the vault above, through the hole before referred to, was hung the great sepulchre light.
This gallery formed the ante-chapel to the #Reliquary Chapel#, which projected northwards from the aisle of the cathedral; the roof line of this chapel can be seen plainly from the outside.
It formed the ante-chapel to the reliquary chapel projecting northward from the outer wall of the cathedral; it probably was built as a bridge so that relics and symbols might be exhibited thereon to processions passing along underneath.
One must have been the #Reliquary Chapel#; the bridge chapel in the north aisle of presbytery formed its ante-chapel.
The executioner drew his scymitar, and raising his arm, was about to give the fatal blow, when he perceived the martyr's reliquary hanging by a cord from his neck.
This prince has always been venerated at Nivelles and Landen as a saint, though he has never been canonized, and every year, in the Rogation processions, his reliquary is borne, together with those of S.
The bishop, Geoffrey de Lieues, causing the reliquary containing Our Lady's tunic to be taken from the church, carried it in procession with his clergy and people outside the gates, and advanced to the royal tent.
Lubersac succeeded in collecting several of these portions, and, after having had them carefully authenticated, he placed them in a reliquary of coral, which has since, by Mgr.
Maria Clara, and hardly knowing what she did, she went up and put into the basket the reliquaryher father had just given her.
Illustration: Reliquaryof Thomas a Becket] At the rear of the cathedral the Vienne is crossed by the thirteenth-century bridge of St. Etienne.
A remarkable example of the work of the emailleurs limousins is the twelfth-century reliquary of Thomas a Becket, one-time Archbishop of Canterbury.
There was a gold chain with a cross, and what you call a reliquary about her little neck, and a scroll written in cipher among her swaddling bands; but they are laid up at home, at Bridgefield.
She was much more on her guard than the day before, and said that she had a shrewd suspicion as to who the babe's parents might be, but that she could not be certain without seeing the reliquary and the scroll.
Naturally if we compare this little reliquary with the great "Coronation" at the Louvre, we find the composition more compressed, but it is not confused.
There is a kind of reliquary in the Vatican Gallery, which represents the Virgin seated, with the Child on her left arm.
The Christ is, in the foreshortening and character of the face, a repetition of that on the reliquary of the "Madonna della Stella.
Still kneeling, Louis slowly drew the reliquaryout of the chest, holding it with both hands.
Simon saw within the chest, lined with white satin, a gold reliquary that contained the Crown of Thorns.
One day Guzman observed that among the few jewels the captain still had left to him there was a very handsome gold reliquary set with diamonds, and this he begged his superior to lend him for a few days.
Guzman handed him the purse in which the reliquary was kept, receiving the hundred and twenty crowns in exchange.
But this is what I will do; I will give you from my reliquary a particle of the Holy Cross, inclosed with an Agnus Dei, and you shall wear it upon you.
Ugolino of Siena constructed the wonderful reliquary at Orvieto; this, is in shape somewhat similar to the façade of the cathedral.
Reliquary at Orvieto Apostle spoons Ivory Knife Handles, with Portraits of Queen Elizabeth and James I.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reliquary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
