GILT RELIQUARY, RELIC TRUE CROSS OF OUR LORD, ORIGINAL DOCUMENT

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GILT RELIQUARY, RELIC TRUE CROSS OF OUR LORD, ORIGINAL DOCUMENT:
$3780.00

Own a spiritual treasure:

FILIGREE GILT/SILVER-PLATED RELIQUARY

WITH A RARE RELIC OF

THE TRUE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

AND ORIGINAL DOCUMENT

Turin/Italy 1958

This beautiful filigree reliquary is a masterpiece of the Torinese goldsmiths with its gilt leaves surrounding the relic window.

Height: 10 cm.

It holds a round theca with a filigree decorated edge, containing two splinters ofthe most precious relics of Christendom,

THE TRUE CROSS OF OUR LORD.

The theca is perfectly sealed with the original red wax seal of His Eminence Cardinal Maurilius FOSSATI, Archbishop of Turin in Italy (and Custodian of the Holy Shroud of Turin).

It comes with its ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, autographed and issued on June 1st, 1958 by Cardinal Fossati, confirming that the two splinters were \"of the wood of the Most Holy Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ\", collected in a \"small round theca of round shape\" and allowing the public veneration of this precious relic.

Please note that although the red wax seal of a Bishop always guarantees the authenticity of a relic, a document is necessary for public veneration, e.g. in case you want to inherit this precious piece to your parish church.

The Most Holy Cross ofOur Lord Jesus Christ

According to severalChurch historians of the 4th and 5th century, the True Cross was discovered in325 AD when Emperor Constantine the Great ordered the removal of a pagan templebuilt by Hadrian over the site of the Calvary and the Holy Sepulchre. Beneaththe structure, in an old cistern, three crosses, the title with the inscription\"Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews\", and three nails were found. Inthe presence of the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, the Cross of Christwas identified by the \'titulus\' and the nail holes, and later confirmed by amiracle. It was laid upon a sick woman who was immediately miraculously cured.

Helena divided themost precious wood into several parts, leaving a fragment in Jerusalem, sendinga second to her son in Constantinople and taking a third to Rome. A part of itand half of the title with the inscription I NAZARINUS R... is still preserved andvenerated in the Basilica di S. Croce,one of the seven main churches of the Eternal City. In1998, a careful investigation was commissioned by the Holy See and sevenIsraeli expertson the dating of inscriptions (comparativepalaeography)dated its letters into the 1st century, the time of Christ.This suddenly gave the \'legend of the Finding of the Cross\' a lot ofcredibility.

Already in 349 AD, St.Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem, stated that the True Cross \"has beendistributed, fragment by fragment, from this spot (Jerusalem) and has alreadynearly filled the world\", confirming the early practise of distributingtiny particles of the Most Holy Wood. When St. Paulinus of Nola sent one to afriend in ca. 401 AD, he wrote: \"Receive a great gift in a little case andtake this segment as an armament against the perils of the present and a pledgeof 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 besufficient to build a ship, was proven wrong in 1870 by the French scholarRohault de Fleury, who mathematically calculated the volume of all relics ofthe True Cross in all European Cathedrals and found them all together havingthe mass of only one third of a Roman cross!

As per \'s new rules,this item is allowed as it contains no human remains but objects of devotion;the relic isof wood.Please note that you offer on the preciousantique reliquary, the relic isa gift to the High buyer. Please contactme if you have any questions.

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