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John Vice, Croatia

This is just to let you know that the relics arrived today safe and sound! Thank you again for making it possible to acquire these important artifacts of Catholic piety and Christian heritage so as to stoke the fire of piety, faith and intercessory prayers towards saints in todays generation of Catholics. Many regards and God bless.

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1867 French silver reliquary monstrance with relics of the True Cross of Jesus Christ

Spectacular large cruciform reliquary monstrance made of lacquered wood decorated with a silver figure of crucified Christ, silver finials, and plaques depicting Skull over Crossed Bones and the Lamb of God. A removable ornate theca housing particles from the wood from the True Cross of Jesus Christ is placed in the oval cavity at the base of the monstrance. The relics are displayed in a cruciform shape surrounded by paperolle ornamentation and are identified in Latin on a manuscript cedula label as S. Crusis D.N.J.C. (Holy Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ). On its back, the theca is secured by an undisturbed seal of red Spanish wax with an imprint of a coat of arms of Father Dominique Lacaes, the Abbot of the Trappist monastery of Sainte-Marie du Mont in Godewaersvelde, France (1847–1883). On the back, the base of the monstrance has a hinged-door compartment that reveals the original matching authentics document issued and signed by Abbot Lacaes in 1867.

The True Cross is a significant Christian relic that is believed to contain physical remnants of the cross on which Jesus was crucified, according to Church tradition. In 326-28, Empress Helena, the mother of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, traveled to the Holy Land and discovered what was believed to be the hiding place of three crosses used in the crucifixion of Jesus and two thieves, St. Dismas and Gestas. A miracle then revealed which of the three was the True Cross.

Over time, fragments of the True Cross were broken up and distributed widely. In fact, Cyril of Jerusalem noted in 348 that the "whole earth is full of the relics of the Cross of Christ." Many of the small relics of the True Cross found in Europe were obtained from Constantinople after the city was sacked during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. These relics were divided by the present bishops and distributed among knights who then donated them to various churches and monasteries. Today, these fragments remain important symbols of faith for many Christians.