This reliquary holds a bone fragment purportedly belonging to Saint Sebastian, within a central rock-crystal vessel. Reliquaries—containers constructed to hold relics, typically the bones of saints or ...
Reliquaries are a great example of this divide between medieval intentions and modern appreciation. To the people of the Middle Ages, the material contained inside a reliquary far outweighed the ...
Dating to the 9th century it is the only Anglo-Saxon reliquary of this type to found in this country. It was made at a time when the Viking invasions destroyed many of Europe's centres of arts and ...
“It started off with us wanting something that focused on New York City tattoo culture,” said Dave Herman, founder of Williamsburg’s City Reliquary, which is now displaying a first-of-its ...
The most precious gift that the king of France could make was a single thorn, detached from the Crown, and the object in this programme is one of those thorns, and the reliquary made to house it.
Please verify your email address. The Glazed Reliquary can be obtained in Chapter 2. First, you must reach the Windrest Bridge Shrine in the Yellow Wind Formation. From here, head towards the ...
The ancient bone, which is encased behind glass in wooden reliquary depicting St. Jude’s arm, will make its first appearance in northern New Jersey at the Church of the Assumption in Emerson on ...