Saint Martina of Rome (†226) was martyred in Rome under the pontificate of Pope Urban I. The daughter of an ex-consul and orphaned at an early age, she was described as a noble and beautiful virgin. She so openly testified to her Christian faith that she could not escape the persecutions under Severus Alexander. Arrested and commanded to return to idolatry, she refused, and after that, she was subjected to various tortures. She was condemned to be devoured by wild beasts but was miraculously untouched by them. She was then thrown onto a burning pyre, from which she also escaped unhurt, and was finally beheaded. Her hagiography asserts that some of her executioners also converted to Christianity and were themselves beheaded. She is a patron saint of Rome and nursing mothers. Her feast day is commemorated on 30 January.
Oval glass-fronted silver pendant reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Martina of Rome. The relics are affixed to a gilt paper starburst on a ground of salmon-colored silk, surrounded by silver wire ornamentation, and identified in Latin on a fancy manuscript cedula label as ex oss. Saint Martinae Virg. & M. (of the bone of Saint Martina, Virgin & 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. Francesco Maria Ginori (†1775), Bishop of Fiesole, Italy (1736–1775).
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- ID#: 64-RSCR98-9
- Size: 39 x 33 mm
- Age: ca. third quarter of the 18th century
- Origin: Fiesole, Italy
- Materials: silver, glass, paper, silk, Spanish wax
- Price: $925
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