Description: This is a antique copper theca with silver front, inside a relic of Saint John of God. Relic loose in theca, and a part in place, wax seal and threads intact. Sealed with the seal of Engelbertus Sterckx who was Archbishop at Mechelen.Comes with its original document, signed in 1843. Comes from a convent in Belgium. Diameter 1,5 inch. Shipping and handling US$ 27,00 by insured priority mail and tracking number. All my items are securely packet, to avoid all possible damage.Our Non Paying Buyer process is now automatically managed by Ebay. The process starts four days after auction end and closes as soon as payment is received. Please contact me if you have any questions. Items cannot be returned!Please be carefull when buying relics online. Fake relics are increasingly more and more of a problem. Most of the relics I sell are from convents in Belgium and Italy. I have been collecting relics for more than 25 years. I consider myself an expert. Please contact me if you have any questions.As per Ebay policy,this reliquary does not contain human remains but only objects of devotion. The auction is for the theca, the relic is a gift. Please see my other auctions for more antique catholic items. Saint John of GodAlso known as Giovanni di Dio Juan de Dios Juan Ciudad Memorial 8 March ProfileJuan grew up working as a shepherd in the Castile region of Spain. He led a wild and misspent youth, and travelled over much of Europe and north Africa as a soldier in the army of Charles V, and as a mercenary. Fought through a brief period of insanity. Peddled religious books and pictures in Gibraltar, though without any religious conviction himself. In his 40’s he received a vision of the Infant Jesus who called him John of God. To make up for the misery he had caused as a soldier, he left the military, rented a house in Granada, Spain, and began caring for the sick, poor, homeless and unwanted. He gave what he had, begged for those who couldn’t, carried those who could not move on their own, and converted both his patients and those who saw him work with them. Friend of Saint John of Avila, on whom he tried to model his life. John founded the Order of Charity and the Order of Hospitallers of Saint John of God.Born 8 March 1495 at Montemoro Novo, Evora, Portugal Died 8 March 1550 at Granada, Spain while praying before a crucifix from a illness he had contracted while saving a drowning man relics at Granada Beatified 21 September 1630 by Pope Urban VIII Canonized 16 October 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII Patronage against alcoholism against bodily ills against sickness alcoholics bookbinders booksellers dying people firefighters heart patients hospitals (proclaimed on 22 June 1886 by Pope Leo XIII) hospital workers nurses (proclaimed on 28 August 1930 by Pope Pius XII) publishers printers sick people (proclaimed on 22 June 1886 by Pope Leo XIII) Granada, Spain Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal Tultepec, Mexico Engelbertus Sterckx was born 2 November 1792 in Ophem, Brabant. His parents were farmers. He began his studies in Vilvoorde, after which he studied humanities at the college of Enghien (1805-1807). After secondary school in Leuven, he entered the Major Seminary, Mechelen, on 18 September 1811 and in 1813 was named subsecretary of archdiocesan curia of Mechelen in 1813. Sterckx was ordained, with an age exemption, as priest for the Archdiocese of Mechelen, on 18 February 1815. He was vice-regent and professor of philosophy and moral theology at Mechelen from 1815 to 1821 when he was appointed pastor at Boechout. In 1824 he was appointed archpriest of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp. In 1827, he was named vicar general to Archbishop, Francis Anthony de Méan of Mechelen, and organized the opposition of the clergy to the religious policies of William I.
Price: 675 USD
Location: Amsterdam
End Time: 2024-12-03T11:08:26.000Z
Shipping Cost: 27 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Religion: Christianity
Country/Region of Manufacture: Belgium
Handmade: Yes
