Saints Cosmas and Damian († c. ad 287) were twin brothers, physicians, and early Christian martyrs who suffered martyrdom in Syria during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. They were venerated as early as the 4th century, when churches dedicated to them were established at Jerusalem, in Egypt, and in Mesopotamia. They are Holy Patrons of surgeons, physicians, dentists, protectors of children, barbers, pharmacists, veterinarians, orphanages, day-care centers, confectioners, children in the house, against hernia, and against the plague.
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Oval glass-fronted silver reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relics of Saints Cosmas and Damian. The relics are affixed to the ground of red silk, surrounded by gilt paperolle and silver wire ornamentation and identified in Latin on manuscript cedula label as Ex Ossibus S. Cosmae M. // S. Domiani M. (of the bone of St. Cosmas Martyr // St. Damian, Martyr). On the back, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of Fr. Pietro Maria Vannucci (†1793), Bishop of Massa Marittima, Italy (1770-1793).
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- ID#: 48-RSCR50-3
- Size: 40 x 34 mm
- Age: ca. last quarter of the 18th century
- Origin: Tuscany, Italy
- Materials: silver, glass, paper, silk, Spanish wax
- Price: $2,250
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