Round yellow-metal glass-fronted reliquary theca housing the first-class ex cineribus (of the bodily ashes) relic of Saint Clare of Assisi. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as S. Clarae Ass. V. (Saint Clare of Assisi, Virgin). On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of the Catholic Order of Friars Minor, also known as the Franciscans. The reliquary is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued by the Postulator General of the Order in 1991.
Saint Clare of Assisi († 1253) is an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, and wrote their Rule of Life, the first set of monastic guidelines known to have been written by a woman. She is a patron of Eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, television, embroiderers, gilders, good weather, needleworkers, Santa Clara Pueblo, and Obando.