Saint Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat, FMS (†1840) was the founder of the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers in the Catholic Church devoted to Mary and dedicated to education. He was ordained as a priest on 22 July 1816 and was part of a group led by Jean-Claude Colin, who founded the Society of Mary, a separate religious congregation to the Marist Brothers teaching order Champagnat founded later. He was beatified in 1955 and canonized in 1999 by Pope John Paul II. He is considered a Patron saint of education, teachers, and simplicity and his feast day is 6 June.
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Round glass-fronted white-metal reliquary theca housing the first-class Ex ossibus (of the bone) pre-canonization relic of Saint Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat. The relic is affixed to a red silk ground and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as B. Marc. Champagnat (Blessed Marcellin Champagnat). On the back, under a protective cap, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of the Marist Brothers. The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued and sealed on 6 June of 1992 (on the day of his feast) by the Postulator General of the Order responsible for the Causes of Canonization.
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- ID#: 06-RSHGR
- Size: 33 mm across
- Age: ca. 1992
- Origin: Rome, Italy
- Materials: metal, glass, paper, silk, Spanish wax
- Price: $850
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