BAROQUE ALTAR RELIQUARY, TRUE CROSS & HOLY FAMILY, PETER & PAUL RELICS, ca. 1750

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BAROQUE ALTAR RELIQUARY, TRUE CROSS & HOLY FAMILY, PETER & PAUL RELICS, ca. 1750:
$1980.00

A spiritual treasure, worthy of the treasury of a major Cathedral or Monastery:

A beautiful Baroque gilt wood altar reliquary from Tuscany, created during the Pontificate of Benedict XIV (1740-58), ca. 14 inches in height, with many fine details.

Inside is the precious reliquary theca with relics of the True Cross and the Holy Family as well as important saints. The reserve bears the imprint of a Bishop\'s seal, confirming the authenticity of the relics.

The relics are of:

* The True Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ:

In the presence of the Empress Helena,mother of Constantine, the Cross of Christ was identified by the \'titulus\' andthe nail holes, and later confirmed by a miracle. It was laid upon a sick womanwho was immediately miraculously cured.Helena divided the most precious wood into severalparts, leaving a fragment in Jerusalem, sending a second to her son inConstantinople and taking a third to Rome. Already in 349 AD, St. Cyril, bishopof Jerusalem, stated that the True Cross\"has been distributed,fragment by fragment, from this spot (Jerusalem) and has already nearly filledthe world\", confirming theearly practise of distributing tiny particles of the Most Holy Wood. When St.Paulinus of Nola sent one to a friend in ca. 401 AD, he wrote:\"Receive a great gift in alittle case and take this segment as an armament against the perils of thepresent and a pledge of everlasting safety\".He stressed that\"even the smallest particlebears in it the whole power of the Cross of Christ\".The claim of the \"enlightened\"sceptics, that all relics of the True Cross would be sufficient to build aship, was proven wrong in 1870 by the French scholar Rohault de Fleury, whomathematically calculated the volume of all relics of the True Cross in allEuropean Cathedrals and found them all together having the mass of only onethird of a Roman cross!

* De Sepulcro B(eatae) M(ariae) V(irginis): Of the Tomb of the Blessed Virgin Mary

* De Pallio S. Josephi: Of the Coat of St. Joseph

* St. Joachim & Anna, Parents of Our Lady

* St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles

* St. Paul, Apostle of the Gentiles

* St. Anthony of Padua

These relics are allowed according to the rules, since they contain no human body parts but objects of devotion: The relics consist of cloth and chalk.

Please note that you offer on the precious antique reliquary, the relic is a gift to the High buyer.

offer with confidence, the authenticity is guaranteed.

Thank you and God bless you!