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The Eadred Reliquary was one of the wide-ranging art forgeries produced by Shaun Greenhalgh and his family, of Bolton, Greater Manchester. In 1989, Shaun Greenhalgh's father, George, tried to sell to Manchester University a supposed 10th-century Anglo-Saxon silver reliquary, containing a small piece of wood which he claimed was a fragment of ...
Abstract: The owner and author gathers the evidence surrounding this fake reliquary, discovered in Avenham Park. The inscription `As the pain-gallows protect us so the Lord protects King Eadred' would initially indicate an Anglo-Saxon date.
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Eadred (also Edred, [1] c. 923 – 23 November 955) was King of the English from 26 May 946 until his death in 955. He was the younger son of Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu, and a grandson of Alfred the Great.
seems to have begun in 1989 with a silver reliquary of the True Cross inscribed for Eadred, the tenth-century King of the West Saxons, apparently discovered in a park in Preston (Fig.56).
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Reliquary Cross, French, c. 1180 Domnach Airgid, Irish, 8th–9th century, added to 14th century, 15th century, and after. The use of reliquaries became an important part of Christian practices from at least the 4th century, initially in the Eastern Churches, which adopted the practice of moving and dividing the bodies of saints much earlier than the West, probably in part because the new ...
