A term sometimes used synonymously with reliquary, but signifying, more correctly, the little box containing the relics, which is placed inside the reliquary.
Lipsanotheca
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APA citation. Lipsanotheca. (1910). In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09280a.htm
MLA citation. "Lipsanotheca." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09280a.htm>.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Source Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) · Letter L