Saint John the Baptist known as the Forerunner in Christ in the Orthodox Church was a Jewish itinerant preacher in the early first century AD. John is revered as a major religious figure in Christianity, Islam, the Bahá'í Faith, and Mandaeism. He is called a prophet by all of these traditions and honored as a saint in many Christian traditions. He is a Patron saint of Jordan, Puerto Rico, Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, French Canada, Newfoundland, Cesena, Florence, Genoa, Monza, Perth (Scotland), Porto, San Juan, Turin, Xewkija, and many other places.
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Oval glass-fronted brass reliquary theca housing a relic of Saint John the Baptist. The relic is mounted on yellow silk ground surrounded by silver wire and paperolle ornamentation and identified in Latin on a manuscript cedula label as S. Jo. Bapt. (Saint John the Baptist). On the back, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax with an imprint of a coat of arms of Archbishop Francesco Saverio Passari (†1808), Vicegerent of Rome and Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia.
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- ID#: 38-RSMIS-15
- Size: 34 x 27 mm
- Age: ca. 1800
- Origin: Rome, Italy
- Materials: brass, glass, silk, paper, silver, Spanish wax
- Price: SOLD!
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