Reliquary

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Reliquary
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Reliquary is a container storing ancient religious objects. Reliquary stores some remains of saints. Relics may be also made by people (by methode of gilding for example) and look like figures. Reliquary is usually in a church, temple, or other shrine.

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Reliquary Shrine, French, c. 1325–50, The Cloisters, New York
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