1995 Documented reliquary theca with relic of Child Blessed Imelda Lambertini, V.O.P.
Round glass-fronted yellow-metal reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Blessed Imelda Lambertini. The relic is affixed to a silk ground surrounded by silver wire and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as B. Imeldae Lamb. V.O.P. (Blessed Imelda Lambertini, Virgin of the Order of Preachers, i.e., the Dominican Order). 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 Dominican Order. The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued and signed in 1995 by the Postulator General of the Order responsible for the cause of beatification and canonization.
Blessed Imelda Lambertini (†1333) - was a Christian child who experienced a miracle and is venerated by the Catholic Church. On May 12, 1333, she knelt in prayer, and the "Light of the Host" was reportedly witnessed above her head by the Sacristan, who then fetched the priest so he could see. After seeing this miracle, the priest felt compelled to admit her to receiving the Eucharist. Immediately after receiving it, Lambertini went back to her seat, and decided to stay after mass and pray. Later, when a nun came to get Lambertini for supper, she found Lambertini still kneeling with a smile on her face. The nun called her name, but she did not stir, so she lightly tapped Imelda on the shoulder, at which Imelda collapsed to the floor dead. Her remains are kept in Bologna at the Church of San Sigismondo, beneath the wax effigy of her likeness. The cultus of this young Blessed has grown so popular that a confraternity for First Communicants has been established in her honor and the last Eucharistic Congress held in Bergamo passed canonization. Lambertini was beatified by Pope Leo XII in 1826.



