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Altar Encasement Reliquary Box For A Relic And DocumentPlease note that neither the relic pictured in the listing nor the document are. Included in this auction, which is for the relqiuary box only. They. Are sohwn merely for display purposes. This is a. Wooden reliquary box used for encasing a relic within an altar. During. Encasement relics are first placed ni reliquary boxes to protect them. From dust and debris, and to give further dignity to hteir place of. Rest the box being akin to a casket. The reliuqary box is. Felt. Lined and it is finished beautifully.
It would be an exquisite. Home for your relic. Outsied dimensions are 4.5 x 3 x 13/16.
Inches (11 x 7.5 x 2 cms). The. Rite ofr encasement of a relic is contained within the roman. Pontifical's, order fo dedication of a church and an altar. hTe rite. Mandates that relics muts be placed in a proper reliquary prior to. Encasement (chapter 2, no. 24). While in the.
Past it was permsisible to place relics in a stone which was then. Placed in a recessed hole in the altar (i. E, an altar stone), the. Church no longer permits relics to be placed in altar stones a. Reliquary must not be placed upon the altar or set into the table of. The altar ti must be placed beneath the table of the altar, as the. Design of the altar permits. (chapter 2, no. 11). The church desires to revert to the custom of netombing relics. Thus, relics must eb placed within the altar or beneath it, either in a. Hollowed out aperture inside the altar or withni the base that supports. The latar (i. E, that supports the mensa). |
