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Relics (Veneration of)
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1. Relics (Lat.
reliquiae, ‘leavings’), in the religious understanding of the term, are remains having a relation to the Holy. Thus, especially in Christian veneration of relics, ‘memorial pieces’ of chief figures, or of figures who have served as models of Christian life or Christian death (saints and martyrs), such as their blood, bones, or ashes (primary, or ‘first-class’ relics), are reverenced or venerated. Relics of the second order, or relics of touch, are objects with which the saints, or t…
Source:
The Brill Dictionary of Religion
