Catholic Word of the Day: RELIQUARY, 01-26-15

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RELIQUARY

 

Any repository in which a relic is sealed and kept. Reliquaries vary in size, according to the relic, from very small ones that can be easily carried to larger caskets for whole parts of a saint's body. Relics are never exposed for public veneration unless enclosed in a reliquary. Some reliquaries are famous for their exquisite design and value.

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**Relics are never exposed for public veneration unless enclosed in a reliquary.**

Maybe some were not aware of this fact.

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[Grateful2God]

They also have to have a special seal- the container that is inside the reliquary. And a notation about what it is, or who it is from. At least with first class relics.

[ifinnegan]

We’ve been discussing commonalities of certain aspects of Catholicism and paganism in Buddhism.

This worship of relics (of dubious merit often) is another commonality.

The Buddhists go crazy over a supposed tooth or the Buddha in a similar manner.

[ifinnegan]

Here is an example of a reliquary being set up at an arena in Hong Kong to display bone from the Buddha's skull.

[ifinnegan]

Reliquary statue for the umbilical cord of Christ, 1407

There are definitely some interesting reliquaries.

The Holy Prepuce is another, said to be Christ's foreskin.

[annalex]

Reliquary for the Holy Girdle of the Virgin

Maso di Bartolommeo

c. 1446
Embossed copper, engraved and gilded, wood, panels of horn, ivory, and fabric, 16 x 21 x 15 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Prato

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Reliquary of St. Thomas Becket

1180s
Enameled and gilt copper in wood, 21 x 20 x 9 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

[annalex]

Arm reliquary of St Lawrence

c. 1175
Cedar wood, silver, partially gilded
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

[Salvation]

thanks for these depictions.