relics, paintings, ancient texts, and other links to our past that were lost suddenly resurface in hard to explain places.
The sick sister was healed after relics from John XXIII were placed on the fistula on her abdomen.
More than 100 relics relating to the Saint Death sect were reportedly found in the garage where Maria was kept.
In the absence of other places to turn to, myth, the Church and relics like the Holy [True] Cross provided necessary comfort.
These may be the up and coming younger members, waiting for their turn as ‘El Chapo’ and ‘El Mayo’ are viewed as relics.
Suffice it to record the fact that these relics are admittedly pre-Christian.
This layer was evidently composed of the relics of a Romano-British people.
Curious legends often cluster round these relics of ancient times.
There were not wanting, however, many other relics of those stormy times.
In the morning he is shown the curiosities, chiefly Scripture relics, in the palace.
early 13c., "body part or other object from a holy person," from Old French relique (11c., plural reliques), from Late Latin reliquiæ (plural) "remains of a martyr," in classical Latin "remains, remnants," noun use of fem. plural of reliquus "remaining, that which remains," related to relinquere (perfective reliqui) "to leave behind" (see relinquish). Sense of "remains, ruins" is from early 14c. Old English used reliquias, directly from Latin.
