A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for
containing relics of saints. From the Greek pheretron,bier: a
large reliquary shrine in the form of a sarcophagus or coffin
with a parallelepipedal container surmounted by a roof with two
slopes ( a saddleback roof) in a manner of a catafalque. In
Christianity: A shrine for relics designed to be carried in
processions; kept behind the high altar. in architecture, is the
enclosure or chapel within which the fereter shrine, or tomb (as
in Henry VII.'s chapel), was placed. The shrines containing the
sacred relics of saints