reliquary

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• On Sunday morning, she carried his vial of blood in an ornate olive-branch style silver reliquary.

• Every January 1, the priest would lead a procession with the relic and its 18th-century reliquary.

• Father Thomas Michelet, having accompanied the reliquary from Sainte-Baume to New York, was surprised by the turnout.

• A special reliquary or glass case, designed for world travel, made the bone fragment visible from all sides.

• The reliquary containing the “Bell of St Patrick” is covered with knotted work in many varieties.

• Some portion of this miraculous blood was preserved in a phial, which was set in a reliquary and placed upon the altar.

• Her precious relics in a reliquary, carried on a mule's back, were paraded by ecclesiastics through towns and villages.

• And the holy reliquary made the round of the whole city, followed by all the people.

• Around her neck she would wear a long chain with a handsome old reliquary attached to it.