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 ...

Even though the reliquary was designed to be used as a vessel to hold a relic, reliquaries continue to be valued in the 21st century as impressive and desirable works of art, exemplifying the style of ...

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.

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 ...