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1991 Documented reliquary theca with relic of Redemptorist St. Gerard Majella C.Ss.R.

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Round glass-fronted yellow-metal reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Gerard Majella. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as S. Ger. Mai. (Saint Gerard Majella). 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 Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (better known as the Redemptorists). The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued and signed in 1991 by the Postulator General of the Order responsible for the cause of beatification and canonization. 

Saint Gerard Majella, C.Ss.R. (†1755) was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. Some of Majella's reported miracles include restoring life to a boy who had fallen from a high cliff, blessing the scant supply of wheat belonging to a poor family and making it last until the next harvest, and several times multiplying the bread that he was distributing to the poor. One day, he walked across the water to lead a boatload of fishermen through stormy waves to the safety of the shore. He was reputed to have had bilocation and the ability to read souls. His intercession is sought for children, unborn children, women in childbirth, mothers, expectant mothers, motherhood, the falsely accused, good confessions, and lay brothers. He was beatified in Rome in 1893 by Pope Leo XIII. He was canonized less than twelve years later in 1904 by Pope Pius X. His Feast Day is commemorated on October 16.

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ID#:
36-RSHGR
Size:
34 mm across
Age:
ca. 1991
Origin:
Rome, Italy
Materials:
metal, glass, silk, paper, Spanish wax
Price:
$87520% off$700
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