The Sanctuary of Saint Michael the Archangel (Santuario di San Michele Arcangelo) is a Roman Catholic shrine on Mount Gargano, Italy, that is the oldest shrine in Western Europe dedicated to the Archangel Michael and has been an important site of pilgrimage since the early Middle Ages. The historic site and its environs are protected by the Parco Nazionale del Gargano. In 2011, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a group of seven inscribed as Longobards in Italy: Places of Power (568-774 A.D.). Monte Sant'Angelo was a popular pilgrimage site on the way to Jerusalem; pilgrims traveled from as far as Ireland to visit the “Celestial Basilica”. Among the pilgrims who visited the Saint Michael Archangel Sanctuary were many popes (Gelasius I, Leo IX, Urban II, Alexander III, Gregory X, Celestine V, John XXIII as Cardinal, John Paul II), saints (Bridget of Sweden, Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas), emperors, kings, and princes (Louis II of Italy, Otto III, Henry II, Matilda of Tuscany, Charles I of Naples, Ferdinand II of Aragon). St. Francis of Assisi also visited the Sanctuary, but, feeling unworthy to enter the grotto, stopped in prayer and meditation at the entrance, kissed a stone, and carved on it the sign of the cross in the form “T” (tau).
A giltwood glass-fronted monstrance dating to the mid-19th century and containing a very significant and important stone-relic of Saint Michael the Archangel from the Grotto of Monte Gargano. The relic, housed inside of a central opening, originally was a single large stone from the Grotto of Monter Gargano, but the stone, at the present time, is cracked into two separate fragments. On the back of the monstrancem, the relic is identified on a paper manuscript cedula label as Pietra prodigiosa della Celeste Basilica S. Michele Arcangelo del Monte Gargano Giusta l'autentica del 3 Dicembre 1853. (A prodigious stone from the Celestial Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel of Monte Gargano. Authenticated on December 3, 1853). Suitable for public veneration.
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- ID#: 227-RSCR-13
- Size: 10 1/3 x 4 1/3 inches (26 x 11 cm)
- Age: ca. 1853 dated
- Origin: Santuario di San Michele Arcangelo, Apulia, Italy
- Materials: Gilt wood, glass, silk
- Price: SOLD!
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