Reliquary theca with a relic of St. Veronica Giuliani, O.S.C. Cap., Patron of Lebanon

Oval glass-fronted brass pendant reliquary theca housing a relic of Saint Veronica Giuliani. The relic is surrounded by silver wire ornamentation, and identified in Latin on a manuscript cedula label as S. Veronic. Jul. V. (Saint Veronica Giuliani, Virgin). On the back, the theca is secured with a perfectly preserved seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of an unidentified Roman Catholic Bishop.

Saint Veronica Giuliani, O.S.C. Cap., (Veronica de Julianis) (†1727) was an Italian Capuchin Poor Clares nun and mystic. After Veronica's death a figure of the Cross was supposedly found impressed upon her heart, and her body has been noted as being incorrupt. She was beatified by Pope Pius VII ​in 1804, and was canonized by Pope Gregory XVI ​in 1839. She is usually represented in art crowned with thorns and embracing the Cross. St. Veronica's "rebirth" in Lebanon began with the devotion of a Lebanese religious, Brother Emmanuel, who came upon her writings in 1994 while serving at a monastery in Deir al-Zour, Syria.