Round glass-fronted silver reliquary theca housing first-class pre-canonization relic of Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. The relic is affixed to a red silk background and identified on a typographic cedula label as B. Gabriel a Virg. Dolorosa (Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows). On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is secured with perfectly preserved seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of the Postulator General for the Cause of Canonization of the Passionist Order.
Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (†1862) was an Italian Passionist clerical student known for his great devotion to the sorrows of the Virgin Mary. He died from tuberculosis at the age of 23 in Isola del Gran Sasso, in the province of Teramo. He was beatified by Pope Pius X in 1908 and canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920. He is a Patron Saint of students, youth, clerics, seminarians, and Abruzzi.