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The mesmerizing array of paintings, frescoes, statues, chalices, candelabra, vestments, reliquaries and ornate wooden crucifixes can be overwhelming for the visitor.

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2022

One is the elongated, slender triangular face with raised, ritual scarifications familiar from so-called Kota reliquaries made in Gabon.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2019

His small-scale art works often invoke Catholic imagery and can suggest reliquaries.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2019

What is radical, or even progressive, about the painfully kitschy “Chamberlain Casket” of 1903, a hodgepodge of metal boats, figurines and medallions, meant to evoke medieval reliquaries, but really floating in art-historical limbo?

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2019

We’ve finished the Mediaeval period, with its reliquaries and elongated saints, and are speeding through the Renaissance, hitting the high points.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood