Saint Beatrice of Silva (†1492) was a Portuguese noblewoman who became the foundress of the monastic Order of the Immaculate Conception. She was imprisoned when her great beauty began to arouse the jealousy of the Queen. During the incarceration, Beatrice experienced an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in which she was instructed to founded a new religious order in Marys's honor. In 1484, Beatrice, with some companions, took possession of a palace in Toledo set apart for them by Queen Isabella I of Castile for the new community under the name Monastery of the Holy Faith, which was to be dedicated to honoring the Immaculate Conception of Mary. In 1489, by permission of Pope Innocent VIII, the nuns adopted the Cistercian Rule,[3] bound themselves to the daily recitation of the office of the Immaculate Conception, and were placed under obedience to the ordinary of the archdiocese. The foundress determined on the religious habit, which is white, with a white scapular and blue mantle, with a medallion of Mary under her title of the Immaculate Conception. She was beatified in 1926 by Pope Pius XI and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1976. Her feast day is celebrated by the Conceptionist nuns and the Franciscan Order and in Spain on 1 September, but in 2012 was transferred to 17 August for Portugal.
1992 Documented reliquary theca with relic of St. Beatrice of Silva, founder of the Order of the Immaculate Conception
Round white-metal glass-fronted reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Beatrice of Silva. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground decorated by painted flowers and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as S. Beatricis de S. (Saint Beatrice of Silva). 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. The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued and sealed in 1992 by the Postulator General of the Order.
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- ID#: 126-RSGSR
- Size: 32 mm across
- Age: ca. 1991
- Origin: Rome, Italy
- Materials: Metal, glass, silk, paper, Spanish wax
- Price: $875
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