The True Cross is the name for physical remnants, which, according to Church tradition, are believed to be from the cross upon which Jesus was crucified. Empress Helena, the mother of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, traveled to the Holy Land in 326–28, where she discovered the hiding place of three crosses that were believed to be used at the crucifixion of Jesus and of two thieves, St. Dismas and Gestas, executed with him, and a miracle revealed which of the three was the True Cross. Fragments of the Cross were broken up, and the pieces were widely distributed; in 348, in one of his Catecheses, Cyril of Jerusalem remarked that the "whole earth is full of the relics of the Cross of Christ." Most of the very small relics of the True Cross in Europe came from Constantinople after the city was captured and sacked in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. They were carved up by the present bishops and divided with other very precious relics among the knights; who, after their return to the homeland, donated them to churches and monasteries.
1846 Documented reliquary theca with relics of the True Cross, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Family & Selected Saints
Large oval glass-fronted silvered brass reliquary theca housing the relic from the Wood of the True Cross, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and relics of the following 19 saints: St. Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Anna Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Columba of Spain Virgin & Martyr, St. John of the Cross, St. Pacificus of San Severino, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Andrew Avellino, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Margaret (St. Marina) of Antioch Virgin & Martyr, St. Angela de Merici, St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, St. Veronica Giuliani, St. Frances Xavier, St. Alphonsus Liguori, and St. Francis de Geronimo. The relics are affixed to a gold silk ground surrounded by silver wire ornamentation and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula labels. On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is secured with a perfectly preserved seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of Fr. Bishop Aloisio San Vitale (†1848), Bishop of Piacenza (1836-1848). The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued and sealed by Father San Vitale in 1846.
Additional Info
- ID#: 10-RSCR124-2
- Size: 54 x 45 mm
- Age: ca. 1846
- Origin: Emilia Romagna, Italy
- Materials: Metal, glass, silk, paper, Spanish wax
- Price: SOLD!
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