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 ...

Reliquaries are a great example of this divide between medieval intentions and modern appreciation. To the people of the Middle Ages, the material contained inside a reliquary far outweighed the ...

"Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon," 1347. Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art ... Proposals or completed manuscripts to be considered for publication by Medieval Institute Publications should be ...

Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Holy Thorn Reliquary (made around 1370), from Paris I'm in Paris, and I'm in what was one of the greatest museums of medieval Europe. Although it ...

And in between is the focus of the whole Reliquary. For medieval Christians, the only hope of escaping the torments of hell lay in the redeeming blood that Christ had shed. At the very centre of ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have unveiled a stunning discovery—a gold-plated medieval pendant found ... to be a ...

You might still enjoy the interactive ones in NYC, such as the Museum of the Moving Image, the City Reliquary ... that will transport you straight to medieval Europe. Did you know that there's ...