St. Lucia of Syracuse (†304), also known as Saint Lucy, or Saint Lucia (Italian: Santa Lucia), was a young Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution who is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Orthodox Churches. She is one of eight women, who along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. She is a patron of the blind; martyrs; Perugia, Italy; Mtarfa, Malta; epidemics; salesmen, Syracuse, Italy, throat infections, and writers.
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Oval glass-fronted metal theca housing ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of St. Lucia of Syracuse. The relic is affixed to a red silk background and identified on a manuscript cedula label as S. Luciae, VM (St. Lucia, Virgin & Martyr). On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is secured by a seal of red Spanish wax with a faint imprint of a coat of arms of a Roman Catholic Archbishop.
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- ID#: 24-RSCR40-11
- Size: 28 x 23 mm
- Age: ca. late 19th century
- Origin: Italy
- Materials: metal, glass
- Price: SOLD!
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