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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is a name for a reliquary head. There is a fine one of St. Candidus, of the 9th or 10th century, of wood plated with silver, preserved in a church of Geneva. One of St. Eustachius, from Basle, of the 13th century, is in the British Museum. At Chichester there was a chapel of St. Richard's Head.