Reliquary

A reliquary is a box, a box, a framework where one enchases Relique S.

Origins

The relics are generally the material remainders people, holy (Ossement S, personal Viscère S, objects or clothing). The first churches were often built on the tombs of the Martyr S (Saint Pierre of Rome, Saint Seurin in Bordeaux and Abbaye of Saint-Sever). The remainders are used at the same time as testimony and give a character crowned to the places where they are located.

Because of the multiplications of the religious buildings and expansion of the Christian faith in Europe throughout the the Middle Ages, of many relics were necessary and of the reliquaries were manufactured to transport them and shelter them.

Often out of metal silver plated or gilded and decorated invaluable stones, the reliquaries, like any goldsmithery, were stored in the part of the treasure of the cathedral and they could be sold (without the relics) in order to fill the financial needs for the community, to relieve the famine of the populations, to pay the tax requested by the king or finally to be given the attackers against the life of the monks.

Notice historical and terminological

From the point of view of archeology, boxes cut in limestone are attested first century before or third century after Jesus-Christ in Palestine, in Jewish medium. The Jews of this time thus recovered the bones of their late, after the time necessary with the decomposition of the flesh in a tomb (generally dug in the rock, as one sees of them many examples today in Palestine-Israel), to preserve them in these boxes.

Similar boxes, bored of an opening allowing an oil flow, recovered fine therapeutic the or different ones, were found in Christian Syria, at the time Byzantine.

One gives the name of lipsanothèque to a reliquary Byzantine when it preserves the remainders of several saints.

For an illustration of the Jewish funerary boxes, type " ossuaire" in an search engine.

The Christian use, the worship of the relics of late especially honoured, drift thus in a certain manner of a Jewish practice.

See too

  • Association " Treasuries of ferveur" (collections of reliquaries) http://chris.monnier.free.fr/tresorsdeferveur/

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