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They were kept in a shrine, or in special containers called reliquaries. Both shrines and reliquaries were lavishly decorated with gold, silver, enamels and precious stones.\r\n\r\nThis is an exact copy of the medieval shrine in Zadar, Croatia, with scenes from the life of St Simeon. The original shrine was made to contain the mummified body of Simeon, who first recognised and blessed the newborn Jesus in the Temple at Jerusalem. This episode, described in the Gospel of St Luke, is shown on the front, in the centre. On the lid there is a full-size image of the saint’s body.\r\n\r\nThe shrine was commissioned by Elizabeth, wife of Louis of Anjou, King of Hungary and Croatia.  The royal arms of Anjou appear at one end and another scene on the front shows Louis’s visit to Zadar in 1358. 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On the sloping roof is a full length recumbent figure of the saint;  the remainder of the surface is divided into panels, most of which contaion scenes in relief connected with his life, the removal of his body and the preparation of the shrine:  these panels are surrounded by bands of conventional floral ornament.  On the ends are the arms of Hungary impaled with those of France;  inscriptions at the back state that the shrine was made by Francesco di Antonio of Sesto near Milan in 1380, at the command of Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary.  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