1989 Documented reliquary with relic of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuit Order

Round glass-fronted white-metal reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as S. Ignatii de Loyola (Saint Ignatius of Loyola). On the back, under the protective cap, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a crest of the Jesuit Order. 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. 

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (†1556) was a Spanish Basque priest and theologian, who founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General. Ignatius was beatified in 1609, and then canonized, receiving the title of Saint on March 12, 1622. His feast day is celebrated on July 31. He is the patron saint of the Basque provinces of Gipuzkoa and Biscay as well as the Society of Jesus, and was declared patron saint of all spiritual retreats by Pope Pius XI in 1922. Ignatius is also a foremost patron saint of soldiers.