Conference on the history of the cult of relics and reliquaries in charge of protecting them.

Frolois keeps a reliquary to the Haraucourt arms, dated 1544. This superb piece of Renaissance silverware contains a hundred relics distributed on both sides of the monstrance. This reliquary is an opportunity to review the history of the cult of relics and reliquaries in charge of protecting them and exalting their power. In parallel with the cult of the saints, which appeared at the end of antiquity, the veneration of their relics developed, a subject which knew different approaches over the centuries and which continues to arouse curiosity or controversy.