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Reliquary theca with relics of St. Jeanne-Antide Thouret, Founder of the Sisters of Divine Charity

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Small round glass-fronted white-metal reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as S. G. A. Thou. (Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret). On the back, under the protective cap, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a crest of the Sisters of Divine Charity (known as the Thouret Sisters).

Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret (†1826) was a French Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Thouret sisters. Thouret's life was one of service to children and the ill across France in schools and hospitals - some of which her order established. This active apostolate did not cease when the French Revolution forced her into exile in both Switzerland and the Kingdom of Prussia. Thouret's canonization cause started in 1900 under Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI later named her as Venerable in 1922. That same pope beatified her in 1926 and canonized her in 1934. Her feast day is commemorated on 24 August and 23 May by the Thouret sisters.

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ID#:
118B-RSHGR
Size:
20 mm across
Age:
ca. 1990s
Origin:
Rome, Italy
Materials:
metal, glass, silk, paper, Spanish wax
Price:
$67520% off$540
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