Saint Bernadette Soubirous (†1879) is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and is best known for the Marian apparitions of a "small young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby garbage dump of the cave-grotto at Massabielle where apparitions are said to have occurred between in 1858. She would later receive recognition when the lady who appeared to her identified herself as the Immaculate Conception. The Marian shrine at Lourdes (Midi-Pyrénées, France) went on to become a major pilgrimage site, attracting over five million pilgrims of all denominations each year. She is a Holy Patron of bodily illness, Lourdes, France, shepherds and shepherdesses, against poverty and people ridiculed for their faith. She was beatified in 1925 by Pope Pius XI and canonized in 1933 by Pope Pius XI. Her feast day is commemorated on 16 April.
A large fancy oval gilt brass reliquary theca profusely decorated around the perimeter by polychrome enamel and crystal stones housing a large and important first-class ex ossibus (of a bone) relic of Saint Bernadette Soubirous. The relic consists of an incredible entire phalange of a finger bone (30 mm in length!) affixed with red silk threads to a black silk ground decorated by elaborate gilt paperolle ornamentation and identified on a manuscript cedula label as S. Soubirous (Saint [Bernadette] Soubirous). On the back, under a protective cap, the reliquary is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint with a coat of arms of Father Édouard Gabriel Mesguen (†1956), Bishop of Poitiers, France (1933–1956). The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued in Poitiers by Bishop Mesguen in 1942 in which the relic is described as Ex Digitus (Of a finger).
Additional Info
- ID#: 34-RSGAR-175
- Size: 11 x 9.5 cm (4 1/2 x 4 inches)
- Age: ca.1943
- Origin: Poitiers, France
- Materials: gilt brass, glass, silk, paper, enamel, crystal
- Price: SOLD!
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