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Lipsanotheca

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Article Text

A term sometimes used synonymously with reliquary, but signifying, more correctly, the little box containing the relics, which is placed inside the reliquary.

Source Record

Publication
The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1910.
Nihil Obstat
Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor.
Imprimatur
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.