Relic Sunday

English Proper noun Relic Sunday en now _ historical A Sunday when a church's relics are especially venerated. en c. 1541 The Chronicle of Calais London 1846 The 23. of Henry the Seventh, the 9. of July, beinge relyke sonday, there was sene at Calleys an innumerable swarme of whit butterflyes cominge out of the north-este [...]. en 1877 w:Richard Watson Dixon History of the Church of England II On Relic Sunday, an annual day whereon all the canons, clerks, and singing men were wont to go round the church in procession, every one carrying a relic, Testwood's offences rose very high.