In the abbey church of saint-denis, the shrines were moved from the crypt to the high altar.
The correct answer is A) crypt; high altar. In the physical structure of the building, the translation of the holy bodies, in the shrines, from their original burial place in the crypt up to the new chevet that is apses that are built as radiating chapels outside the choir aisle.
Abbot Suger friend and confidant of the French kings and abbot of St Denis from 1122, began working around 1135 in the reconstruction and expansion of the abbey.
Suger began his reconstruction project at the western end of St. Denis, demolishing the old Carolingian westwork, with its unique door, located in the center.
