reliquary

• I set it on the floor near the reliquary, and Helen and I gently lifted the two icons from their places—I found myself averting my eyes from the dragon and Saint George—and propped them against one wall. —  The Historian
• It was Christian and very old, what is referred to as a reliquary, something to hold the bones of someone very special, a bishop perhaps, or even a saint. —  Celtic Riddle
• I set hand to the work, and made a drawing for the reliquary, well adapted to contain the sacred phial. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• Then he said: Go find Benvenuto in his shop, and treat him with all the courtesies of which your ignorant and brutal nature is capable, and tell him that if he is willing to finish that piece for a reliquary to hold the Corpus Domini when I walk in procession, I will allow him the conveniences he wants in order to complete it; provided only that he goes on working. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• Painters associated themselves in the same ideal of beauty with architects, they united in an indestructible relation cathedrals and saints, only reversing the usual process--they framed the jewel according to the shrine, and modelled the relics for the reliquary On their side the sequences chanted by the Church had subtle affinities with the canvases of the Early Painters Vittoria's responses for Tenebrć are of a like inspiration and an equal loftiness with those of Quentin Matsys' great work, the Entombment of Christ. —  En Route

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