1993 Vatican documented reliquary with relic of St. Paul of the Cross, founder of the Passionists Order

Round glass-fronted white-metal reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Paul of the Cross. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as S. Pauli a Cruce (Saint Paul of the Cross). 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 Monsignor Ugo Poletti, the Vicar General of Rome (1973-1997). The reliquary is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued by Cardinal Poletti in 1993. 

Saint Paul of the Cross (†1775) was an Italian Roman Catholic mystic, and founder of the Passionists. The first Retreat was opened in 1737 on Monte Argentario. Paul called his monasteries "retreats" to underline the life of solitude and contemplation which he believed was necessary for someone who wished to preach the message of the Cross. In addition to the communal celebration of the divine office, members of his community were to devote at least three hours to contemplative prayer each day. The austerity of life practised by the first Passionists did not encourage large numbers, but Paul preferred a slow, at times painful, growth to something more spectacular. Saint Paul of the Cross was beatified in 1852, and canonized on 29 June 1867 by Pope Pius IX. His feast is celebrated in the United States on 20 October.