Saint Didacus of Alcalá O.F.M. (Spanish: Diego de Alcalá) († 1463), also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served as among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. In 1450, he went to Rome to share in the Jubilee Year proclaimed by Pope Nicholas V, and to be present at the canonization of Bernardine of Siena. In addition to the vast crowds of pilgrims arriving in Rome for Jubilee Year, thousands of friars had headed to Rome to take part in the celebration of one of the pillars of their Order. An epidemic broke out in the city. Didacus served as infirmarian and spent three months caring for the sick at the friary attached to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, and his biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom he attended through his pious intercession. He was then recalled back to Spain and was sent by his superiors to the Friary of Santa María de Jesús in Alcalá, where he spent the remaining years of his life in penance, solitude, and the delights of contemplation. Didacus was canonized by Pope Sixtus V in 1588, the first of a lay brother of the Order of Friars Minor. He is a Holy Patron of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego and Franciscan Lay Brothers. His feast day is celebrated on 13 November and on 7 November by the Franciscan Order in the United States and the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego.
1992 Documented reliquary theca with relics of St. Didacus of Alcalá, the first canonized lay brother of OFM
Round yellow-metal glass-fronted reliquary theca housing first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Didacus of Alcalá. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on typeset cedula label as S. Didaci C. (Saint Didacus, Confessor). On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM) . The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued and sealed in 1992 by the Postulator General of the Order responsible for the Causes of Canonization.
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- ID#: 117-RSGSR
- Size: 33 mm (1 1/3 inches) across
- Age: ca. 1992
- Origin: metal, glass, paper, silk, Spanish wax
- Materials: Rome, Italy
- Price: $1,200
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