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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 1020 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHRINE (
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Lat. scrinium, a case or chest for books, hence a
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casket; from scribere, to write, Fr. ecrin, Ital. scrigno)
  , the
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term given to the repository or chest to hold sacred relics . Sometimes shrines are merely small boxes, generally with raised tops like
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roofs; sometimes actual
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models of churches; some-times large constructions like that at St Albans, that of
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Edward the
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Confessor at Westminster, of Ste Genevieve at Paris, &c . Many are covered with jewels in the richest way, such as the example at St Taurin, at
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Evreux in
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Normandy, and that of
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San Carlo Borromeo, at Milan, of beaten
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silver; the largest series are those which were enriched with enamels . Sometimes the term is given to the
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chapel in which the shrine is deposited .

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