reliquary
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Reliquary Shrine (de Touyl)| Reliquary Shrine, French, –50, [[The Cloisters, New York]] thumb|Inside the shrine of St. Saint Boniface| Boniface of Dokkum in the hermit-church of [[Warfhuizen in the Netherlands. The little folded paper on the left contains a bone fragment of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the folded paper on the right a piece of the habit of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. The large bone in the middle (about 5 cm in length) is the actual relic of St. Boniface.]]
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thumb|300px|Reliquary Shrine (de Touyl)| Reliquary Shrine, French, –50, [[The Cloisters, New York]] thumb|Inside the shrine of St. Saint Boniface| Boniface of Dokkum in the hermit-church of [[Warfhuizen in the Netherlands. The little folded paper on the left contains a bone fragment of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the folded paper on the right a piece of the habit of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. The large bone in the middle (about 5 cm in length) is the actual relic of St. Boniface.]]
A reliquary (also referred to as a shrine, chasse, or phylactery) is a container for relics. A portable reliquary, or the room in which one is stored, may also be called a feretory. A brooch-like container for a very small relic may be called a "theca".