The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 63
of relics, established in the early days of the Church,subsequently led to the introduction of shrines and reliquaries, a kind ofportable tomb which the disciples of the Gospel devoted to the memory, andin honour, of martyrs and confessors of the faith. Thus from the first, incollecting these holy… … Fig. 22 —Censer of the Eleventh Century, recalling the shape of the Temple of Jerusalem, in copperrepoussé. (Formerly in Metz Cathedral, now at Trêves.) many virtues and miracles. Hence the introduction of shrines into churches,and reliquaries into private houses. Owing to the care bestowed on some…
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