Round white-metal glass-fronted reliquary theca housing first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint John Nepomucene Neumann. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as S. Joan. Nepom. N. (Saint John Nepomucene Neumann). On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of Monsignor Ugo Poletti (†1997), the Vicar General of Rome (1973–1997). The reliquary is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued by the Vicar General of Rome in 1993.
Saint John Nepomucene Neumann CSsR (German: Johann Nepomuk Neumann, Czech: Jan Nepomucký Neumann (†1860) was a Catholic priest from Bohemia. He immigrated to the United States in 1836, where he was ordained, joined the Redemptorist order, and became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. In Philadelphia, Neumann founded the first Catholic diocesan school system in the US. Canonized in 1977, he is the only male US citizen to be named a saint. He is considered a patron saint of Catholic education.