1991 Documented reliquary theca with relic of St. Peter Julian Eymard, Founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers and Brothers & the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament
Round glass-fronted silver reliquary theca decorated with gilt filigree housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Peter Julian Eymard. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground surrounded by silver wire ornamentation and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as Ex Ossibus / S. Eymard (Saint Peter Julian Eymard). 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 Servants of the Blessed Sacrament. 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 Peter Julian Eymard, SSS (†1868) was a French Catholic priest, founder of two religious institutes, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers and Brothers and the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament named by Pope John Paul II "Apostle of the Eucharist". He was beatified by Pope Pius XI on 12 July 1925, and canonized by Pope John XXIII on 9 December 1962. His feast day is celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church on 2 August.




