Мощевик монстра с реликвией от Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы

Large French Gothic-style gilt-bronze monstrance reliquary dating to 1880's housing in the central glass-fronted cavity holy relic of the Veil of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The relic is affixed to a red velvet ground decorated with intricate gilt paperole ornamentation and identified in French on a manuscript cedula label as Voile B.M.V. ([of] the Veil of the Blessed Virgin Mary). On the back, under a metal protective cap, the theca is secured with a perfectly preserved seal of red Spanish wax with a clear imprint of a coat of arms of Fr. Pierre-Alfred Grimardias (†1896), Bishop of Cahors, France (1863-1893).