Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, T.O.S.F., (French: Benoît-Joseph Labre) (†1783) was a French mendicant, Franciscan tertiary, and Catholic saint known as the "saint of the Forty Hours" (or Quarant' Ore) for his dedication to Eucharistic adoration. A cult grew up around him very soon after his death, and he was declared Blessed by Blessed Pius IX in 1860, and later canonized by Pope Leo XIII in 1881. Benedict is a patron saint of bachelors, rejects, mental illness, mentally ill people, insanity, beggars, hobos, the homeless. His feast day is observed on April 16.
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Large oval glass-fronted yellow metal reliquary theca decorated on the outside with Fleures-de-lis and crystals housing second-class relic of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre. The relic is affixed to a gold silk background decorated by a silver wire and identified on a typeset cedula label as S. Benoît Joseph La. On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is secured by a seal of red Spanish wax with a imprint of a coat of arms of a Roman Catholic Archbishop.
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- ID#: 18-2-RSINR-25
- Size: 100 x 100 mm (4 x 4 inches)
- Age: ca. 1900
- Origin: France
- Materials: metal, glass, silk
- Price: $975
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1089 Commonwealth Ave #314,
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