Round glass-fronted reliquary theca dating to 1920's housing significant first-class ex ossibus (from the bone) relics of Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria. The relics are affixed to a red silk background and identified on a typographic cedula as Ex Oss S Ant. M. Zaccaria (from the bone of Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria). On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is protected by a seal of red wax with a well-preserved seal of the Barnabite Order.
Saint Anthony Maria Zaccaria C.R.S.P. (†1539) was an early leader of the Counter-Reformation and one of the founders of the Barnabite Order. He was Beatified by Pope Leo XIII and canonized on May 15, 1897, by Pope Leo XIII. He is a patron of The Barnabite order, Angelic Sisters of St. Paul, Laity of St. Paul, and Physicians.