Relics: objects
venerated as sacred from their association with a saint or martyr.
Reliquary: a
container where relics are
stored.
Many reliquaries were elaborately decorated. Here's one example of an early medieval reliquary dated from the 7th Century:
You can see another example that I shared with my readers on my JDP NEWS blog: What Am I Writing Now?
That is very cool. What did they keep in this one???
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We don't know now. It could have been a lock of a saint's hair or one of their bones or teeth or a piece of clothing that they wore, pretty much anything associated with a saint that would fit!
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