Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist (born Maria Barba; †1949) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious of the Discalced Carmelites. Barba desired to become a professed religious in her adolescence but her parents forbade this and she was forced to wait two decades to realize her dream; she entered the order after her parents died, though she alienated her brothers in the process. They refused to ever see her due to their resentment of her decision. Barba became a noted member of her convent in Ragusa and she served as prioress for an extensive period in which she fostered a rigid adherence to the order's rule so as to live the fullness of its charism. Her devotion to the Eucharist was a focal point for her spiritual thinking and her own life and she wrote to an extensive degree on the Eucharist and its importance. Pope John Paul II beatified Barba on 21 March 2004.
2004 Documented reliquary theca with relic of the Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist (Maria Barba)
Round yellow-metal glass-fronted reliquary theca housing the first-class ex capillis (of the hair) relic of the Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist (Maria Barba). The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as B. M. Candidae ab. Euch (Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist, Abbess). 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 Carmelite Order. The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued and sealed on 21th March 2004 (the very day of her beatification) by the Postulator General of the Order responsible for the Causes of Canonization.
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- ID#: 209-RSGSR
- Size: 32 mm across
- Age: ca. 2004
- Origin: Rome, Italy
- Materials: metal, glass, paper, silk, Spanish wax
- Price: $900
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