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Secondary / Contact Relics
Relic material made holy through association or contact rather than necessarily a primary bodily relic; the Met notes that many surviving reliquary crosses likely contained such secondary relics.
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Reliquary CrossSecondary / Contact Relics ←can-contain— Reliquary Cross · qualified-source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-758.Reliquary Cross with Christ and the Virgin (Met 1999.519.9)Secondary / Contact Relics ←can-contain— Reliquary Cross with Christ and the Virgin (Met 1999.519.9) · qualified-source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-757.
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