Lexicographical Neighbors of Feretories
Literary usage of Feretories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hall Marks on Gold & Silver Plate by William Chaffers (1905)
"Four other feretories, silver and gilt and crystal. Phylacteries.^.—A silver and
gilt phylactery with red and blue stones, containing the bones of S. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The forms observed of all-night vigils, and the carrying of the precious remains
in "feretories" of gold or silver, overshadowed with silken canopies and ..."
3. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... or carrying feretories, and coffers, and golden busts, and silver hands and
arms, containing relics of the blessed saints, or beautiful statues of Our ..."
4. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1904)
"But it even happens, as some well know, that holy relics in not a few churches —
crosses, chalices, feretories, and other precious articles — go to make up ..."
5. Annals of the Artists of Spain by William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"feretories for the bodies of St. Eugenius and S1*- Leocadia . 465 Custodia of
Baeza .... 466 Various celebrated works in silver and gold at the Escorial and ..."
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