of coral in this strange place, suggesting a reliquary sea, and of the blessed semblance of God on the faces of superstitious mountains

on a colourful reliquary

should now look like a reliquary of bygone world

It can only be conserved, in a reliquary form, as a testimony of an experience related to history by an emotional link.

He peered into dusty reliquary jars containing the bones of Saint Whoever.

But other holy appliances were kept handy, for a rousing ceremony to speed the foreign visitor who rested up on the hill. Reliquaries were opened

a toe in a reliquary