1989 Documented reliquary theca with relic of Polish Blessed Maria of Jesus the Good Shepherd (Frances Siedliska)

Round glass-fronted yellow-metal reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Blessed Maria Angela Siedliska (Mary of Jesus the Good Shepherd). The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as B. Mariae a Iesu. (Blessed Mary of Jesus). On the back, under the protective cap, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued and signed in 1989 by the Postulator General of the Order responsible for the cause of beatification and canonization. 

Blessed Maria Angela Siedliska (†1902), known as Mary of Jesus the Good Shepherd, was a Polish Catholic nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. She felt a religious calling early, entering a Franciscan monastery in 1870. In 1873, she established her congregation to serve families and the poor, emphasizing education and charity. She led with humility, enduring personal hardships while spreading her mission to Europe and America. She was beatified in 1989, and her feast day is celebrated on June 10.