BAROQUE SILVER RELIQUARY, LARGE RELIC of the TRUE CROSS OF OUR LORD for Sale

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BAROQUE SILVER RELIQUARY, LARGE RELIC of the TRUE CROSS OF OUR LORD:
$2899.00

Own a spiritual treasure, worthy of the Treasury of a Cathedral:

BAROQUE SILVER RELIQUARY

WITH A LARGE RELIC

OF THE TRUE CROSS

OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

Rome, ca. 1780

A beautiful, filigree, richly decorated baroque silver (or silver-plated, no hallmark) altar reliquary. Gilt sunrays surround a brass theca, perfectly sealed with the red wax seal of a Roman Curia Bishop with the threads intact. Inside, fixed on a filigree silver thread cross, are two large, thick splintersofthe most precious relics of christendom,

described with the label (cedula):

DE CRUCE D.N.J.Ch. (Domini Nostri Jesu Christi):

Of the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Size: 29 cm (ca. 12 inches)

Please note that usually True Cross relics are just microscopic splinters - relics of this significant size are extremely rare!

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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