{"id":32652,"date":"2015-09-15T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T23:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32652"},"modified":"2015-09-15T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T20:32:35","slug":"32652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/32652\/","title":{"rendered":"Eucharistic Box or Reliquary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Eucharistic-Box-or-Reliquary-silver-traces-of-niello-early-5th-century-Kurin-Syria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-32653 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Eucharistic-Box-or-Reliquary-silver-traces-of-niello-early-5th-century-Kurin-Syria-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"Eucharistic Box or Reliquary, silver, traces of niello; early 5th century; Kurin, Syria\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Eucharistic-Box-or-Reliquary-silver-traces-of-niello-early-5th-century-Kurin-Syria-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Eucharistic-Box-or-Reliquary-silver-traces-of-niello-early-5th-century-Kurin-Syria-1024x980.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Eucharistic-Box-or-Reliquary-silver-traces-of-niello-early-5th-century-Kurin-Syria.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I saw this post on FB today and thought about the various ways in which the Church &#8220;houses&#8221; the Eucharistic species of the Lord. To say that there is but one way to think liturgically and theologically is limited.<\/p>\n<p>What you is an &#8220;Eucharistic Box or Reliquary,&#8221; made of silver, traces of niello in the early 5th century in Kurin, Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The celebration of the Divine Liturgy is one of the most important ceremonies in the Christian Church. This reliquary is part of a silver service, that is one of only four to survive from the first &#8220;golden age&#8221; of Byzantium (6th century). This silver service was found in Syria in 1910, in the village<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0of Kurin. The Greek form of its name, Kaper Koraon, is inscribed on several pieces in the treasure, including a chalice, which reads: &#8220;&#8230;treasure of the Church of St. Sergios of the village of Kaper Koraon.&#8221; Almost all of the vessels record the names of donors who gave pieces from their private dinner services in fulfillment of a vow, to gain divine blessing, or in prayer for salvation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this post on FB today and thought about the various ways in which the Church &#8220;houses&#8221; the Eucharistic species of the Lord. To say that there is but one way to think liturgically and theologically is limited. What you is an &#8220;Eucharistic Box or Reliquary,&#8221; made of silver, traces of niello in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/32652\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eucharistic Box or Reliquary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[32103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32655,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32652\/revisions\/32655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}