enclosure or chapel within which the ferreter shrine, or tomb (as in Henry VII.'s chapel), was placed.[29]
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shrine for relics during a procession or for a funeral bier
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• (n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.
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Fer`e·to·ry noun [ Latin
feretrum bier, Greek ..., from ... to bear, akin to Latin
ferre , English
bear to support.] A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.
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A feretory was a bier or shrine containing the relics of saints borne in processions, which was usually done on their feast-days, as a token of gratitude in times of public rejoicing, or to obtain some favour in seasons of calamity.
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In architecture, a feretory is a bier, or coffin; tomb, or shrine. This term seems more properly to belong to the portable shrines in which the relics of saints were carried about in processions, but was also applied to the fixed shrines or tombs in which their bodies were deposited.
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