English to Xhosa Meaning of reliquary - reliquary

Reliquary :

reliquary

noun

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Definitions of reliquary in English

Noun(1) a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints

Examples of reliquary in English

(1) In another essay, he described his experience at a Buddhist monastery that housed a reliquary said to contain a bone of the Buddha.(2) The reliquary will remain in Church Street until 7.30 pm tomorrow when it will be moved across the Liffey to Merchants Quay church where there will be short period for veneration.(3) A lot of people are under the impression that the reliquary will be something similar to that of St. Therese of Lisieux which visited the Shrine two years ago.(4) It is what many observers feel will be the most important religious event in this country since the Papal visit in 1979, with the Diocese of Ferns to have the honour of being the first to receive the reliquary .(5) The huge response of people in turning out to see the reliquary which contains some of the bones of St. ThÔö£┬«rÔö£┬┐se is heralded by many in the Catholic Church as a clear sign of a resurgence in spirituality and faith.(6) In the main prayer hall we stood before a reliquary said to contain the head of Zachariah, father of John the Baptist.(7) Between 1422 and 1425 a new reliquary was made for Saint Philip's arm.(8) One continued along a sequence of glass-fronted niches, like the compartments of a reliquary or the card-by-card disclosure of a Tarot hand.(9) The gold buckle does not feel like a real dress item, and may have been a reliquary , its hollow box once containing a sacred fragment of bone or textile.(10) This informal presentation enhanced the sense that one was being invited to uncover personal secrets, or to peer inside a reliquary .(11) At Louvain, the three ornate facades are sculptural in a conventional sense, completely encrusted with baldachins and statues, the surfaces richly worked like a monumental reliquary .(12) He displayed it in a reliquary at a liturgical station at the hospital of S. Spirito, to commemorate the Feast of the Wedding at Cana.(13) The tour of the reliquary of St Therese of Lisieux began in April, 2001, and reopened aspects of a debate simmering since 1979.(14) Thus, when the reliquary was exhibited from the outdoor pulpit on feast days sacred to the Virgin Mary, a strong visual bond between the reliquary and the church in which it was kept could be discerned.(15) As the importance of saints and their relics increased, reliquaries and image-bearing objects, such as small statues, began to be placed upon the altar.(16) The two reliquaries are described as containing the relics of the little-known Saint Felician, the third-century bishop of Foligno who was particularly venerated in Umbria, Italy.

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Synonyms

1. reliquary ::

reliquary

Different Forms

reliquaries, reliquary

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