reliquary

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Words related to reliquary

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

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An upper structure or feretrum was basically a reliquary containing the saint's remains, which might vary from the entire body, sometimes allegedly not corrupt, to individual bones.
Cathedral Shrines of Medieval England
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