a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.
2.
any place or object hallowed by its history or associations: a historic shrine.
3.
any structure or place consecrated or devoted to some saint, holy person, or deity, as an altar, chapel, church, or temple.
4.
a receptacle for sacred relics; a reliquary.
–verb (used with object)
5.
to enshrine.
Origin: bef. 1000; ME schrine, OE scrīn (c. G Schrein, D schrijn) < L scrīnium case for books and papers
[shrahyn] 
noun, verb, shrined, shrin⋅ing.