Meanings
- historicalA Sunday when a church's relics are especially venerated.
The 23. of Henry the Seventh, the 9. of July, beinge relyke sonday, there was sene at Calleys an innumerable swarme of whit butterflyes cominge out of the north-este [...].
c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 18461 more example
On Relic Sunday, an annual day whereon all the canons, clerks, and singing men were wont to go round the church in procession, every one carrying a relic, Testwood's offences rose very high.
1877, Richard Watson Dixon, History of the Church of England, volume II
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Relic Sunday. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Relic%20Sunday
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