Round glass-fronted yellow-metal reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) pre-canonization relic of Saint Marcellin Champagnat. A relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as B. Marc. Champagnat (the Blessed Marcellin Champagnat). On the back, under the protective cap, the theca is secured by a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of the Postulator General of the Marist Brothers. The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued by the Order on 8 September 1978.
Saint Marcellin Champagnat, FMS (†1840) was born in Le Rosey, France. He was the founder of the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers in the Catholic Church devoted to Mary and dedicated to education. At his death, there were 280 Marist Brothers in the south of France. In 2000, there were about 5000 Marist Brothers and tens of thousands of lay people who undertake the work of spreading Marist education in 74 countries around the world. His feast day is 6 June, his death anniversary, and he is considered a Holy Patron of education, teachers, and simplicity.