• A term sometimes used synonymously with reliquary, but signifying, more correctly, the little box containing the relics, which is placed inside the reliquary
Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.
Lipsanotheca
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A term sometimes used synonymously with reliquary, but signifying, more correctly, the little box containing the Relics, which is placed inside the reliquary.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. Nihil Obstat. 1910.
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