The True Cross is the name for physical remnants that, 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 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.
An attractive ca. 1930's Art Deco silver reliquary housing an 18th-century double-crystal silver-set reliquary with particle relics of the Precious Wood of the True Cross of Jesus Christ. Inside the five-sided glass-fronted cavity hangs a crystal reliquary containing precious relics. The inner reliquary is secured by a seal of red Spanish wax with an imprint of a coat of arms of Francesco Antonio Marcucci (†1798), Vicegerent of Rome and Titular Patriarch of Constantinople.On the back side, the outer reliquary is secured with a perfectly preserved seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint with a coat of arms of Fr. Bishop Gaston-Antoine Rasneur (†) Bishop of Tournai, Belgium (1924–1939). The reliquary is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued by Father Rasneur in 1932.
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- ID#: 12-RSGA-15
- Size: 17 cm (7 3/4 inches) tall
- Age: ca. 18th century with ca. 1932 outer case and authentic
- Origin: Italy, re-certified in Belgium
- Materials: silver, crystal, glass, paper, silk, Spanish wax
- Price: Price upon request
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