Saint Martha of Bethany was a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. She lived in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem, where she witnessed Jesus resurrecting her brother, Lazarus. In Eastern Orthodox Church tradition, Martha and Mary were among the Myrrh-bearing Women who stood at Golgotha during the Crucifixion of Jesus and later came to his tomb early on the morning following Sabbath with myrrh to anoint their Lord's body. The Myrrhbearers became the first witnesses to the Resurrection of Jesus, finding the empty tomb and hearing the joyful news from an angel. Orthodox tradition also relates that Martha's brother Lazarus was cast out of Jerusalem in the persecution against the Jerusalem Church following the martyrdom of St. Stephen. His sister Martha fled Judea with him, assisting him in the proclaiming of the Gospel in various lands, while Mary Magdalene remained with John the Apostle and assisted him with the Church of Jerusalem. Veneration Martha is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Oval glass-fronted silver reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Martha, Disciple of the Lord. The relic is affixed to a gilt paper star on a blue ground surrounded by silver wire ornamentation and identified in Latin on a manuscript cedula label as Ex Oss. S. Marthae V. (of the bone of St. Martha, Virgin). On the back, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of an unidentified Roman Catholic Bishop.
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- ID#: 02-RSCR50-15
- Size: 48 x 34 mm
- Age: ca. 19th century
- Origin: Italy
- Materials: silver, glass, paper, silk, Spanish wax
- Price: $925
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