Small round glass-fronted white-metal reliquary theca housing the first-class ex corpore (of the body) pre-canonization relics of St. Josephine Bakhita. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as Ex Corpore B. Josephinae Bakhita (from the body of the Blessed Josephine Bakhita). On the back, under the protective cap, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of the Canossian Daughters of Charity (better known as the Canossians). The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued on 17 May 1992 (the very day of her beatification) by the Postulator General of the Order.
Saint Josephine Bakhita, F.D.C.C. (†1947), was a Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister who lived in Italy for 45 years, after having been a slave in Sudan. She was Beatified on 17 May 1992 and declared a saint on 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II, becoming the first Black woman to receive the honor in the modern era.