Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, S.J. (Italian: Luigi Gonzaga; † 1591) was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of an epidemic. He was beatified in 1605, and canonized in 1726. He is a patron of students, Christian youth, Jesuit scholastics, the blind, AIDS patients, AIDS caregivers.
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Oval glass-fronted white-metal pendant reliquary theca housing a precious relic of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. The relic is affixed to a ground of red-colored silk, surrounded by silver wire and gilt paperolle ornamentation, and identified in Latin on a manuscript cedula label as S. Aloy. Gon.(Saint Aloysius Gonzaga). On the back, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of Fr. Michele Seri-Molini (†1888), Bishop of Osimo e Cingoli, Italy (1871–1888).
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- ID#: 35-RSCR124-7
- Size: 27 x 24 mm
- Age: ca. 1870s
- Origin: Ancona, Italy
- Materials: metal, glass, silk, silver, paper, Spanish wax
- Price: $875
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