Saint Joseph Calasanz, Sch.P. (Spanish: José de Calasanz; Italian: Giuseppe Calasanzio), (†1648), also known as Joseph Calasanctius and Josephus a Matre Dei, was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, providing free education to the sons of the poor, and the Religious Order that ran them, commonly known as the Piarists. He was beatified on in 1748, by Pope Benedict XIV and canonized by Pope Clement XIII in 1767. On August 13, 1948, Pope Pius XII declared him to be the "Universal Patron of all Christian popular schools in the world." His feast day is celebrated on August 25.
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Oval glass-fronted silvered brass pendant reliquary theca housing first-class Ex tela imbuto sanguinis (of a cloth soaked in blood) pre-canonization relic of Saint Joseph Calasanz. A substantial relic is affixed to a silk ground, surrounded by silver wire ornamentation, and identified in Latin on a fancy manuscript cedula label as Ex tela imb. sang. B. Josephi // Calas. Sch. Piat Fund. // B.V.M. (of the of a cloth soaked in the blood of Blessed Joseph Calasanz, Founder of the Pious Schools). On the back, the theca is secured with a perfectly preserved 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#: 13-RSCR98-9
- Size: 34 x 27 mm
- Age: ca. third quarter of the 18th century
- Origin: Fiesole, Italy
- Materials: brass, glass, silk, paper, silver, Spanish wax
- Price: $875
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