Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine in the Eastern Orthodoxy is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius. She is a patron of Unmarried girls, Aalsum; apologists; craftsmen who work with a wheel (potters, spinners); archivists; dying people; educators; girls; jurists; knife sharpeners; lawyers; librarians; libraries; Balliol College; Massey College; maidens; mechanics; millers; milliners; hat-makers; nurses; philosophers; preachers; scholars; schoolchildren; scribes; secretaries; spinsters; stenographers; students; tanners; theologians; University of Oviedo; University of Paris; haberdashers; wheelwrights; Żejtun, Malta; Żurrieq, Malta; Pagbilao, Quezon, Philippines; Carcar City, Cebu, Philippines; and Katerini, Greece.
Oval glass-fronted silvered metal reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. The relic is affixed to a silk ground surrounded by paperolle ornamentation and identified in Latin on a manuscript cedula label as Ex Oss. // S. Catherinae V. et M. (Saint Catherine, Virgin and Martyr). On the back, the theca is secured with a perfectly preserved seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of Fr. Pietro Maria Vannucci (†1793), Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy (1770-1793). The theca is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued and signed by Fr. Vannucci in 1780.
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- ID#: 253-RSCR-75
- Size: 47 x 42 mm
- Age: ca. 1780
- Origin: Tuscany, Italy
- Materials: brass, glass, silk, paper, Spanish wax
- Price: SOLD!
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