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Henry, UK

Thank you for the icon of St. Princess Sofia. A very interesting person. Once again a very speedy and efficient delivery.

Anthony, FL

St. Maximilian Kolbe’s relic has arrived safe and sound. It’s incredible to think such a rare relic is now in my possession. Thank you for the beautiful certificate as well. His relic will be treasured among the rest of the saints I’m blessed to be a custodian of. Hope to deal with you again soon!

Ellen, Washington PA

The icons we have been able to purchase through your store are extremely beautiful and enjoyed and venerated by many in our parish We are so grateful to you for making them available and ask GOD to bless you for making our spiritual lives richer because of them.

Fr. Norbert, CA

Bl. Francis Page arrived safe and sound - thanks be to God. He was so well packed!! Thank you for that!

Vasilike, MD

Thank you so much for the beautiful icons! I received them today and love them. They are exquisite. Thank you, too, for arranging a payment plan for me, and for putting a wire on the back of each so I can hang them. I can't wait to do so.

Reliquary theca with relics of the True Cross of Jesus Christ

Oval glass-fronted silver theca housing particle relic from the Wood of the True Cross of Jesus Christ. The relics are affixed in a cruciform shape to a red silk background surrounded by silver wire ornamentation. On the back, the theca is secured by a seal of red Spanish wax with an imprint of a coat of arms of a Roman Catholic Cardinal.

The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which, by the Church tradition, are believed to be from the cross upon which Jesus was crucified. Empress Helena, the mother of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, traveled to the Holy Land in 326–28, where she discovered the hiding place of three crosses that were believed to be used at the crucifixion of Jesus and of two thieves, St. Dismas and Gestas, executed with him, and a miracle revealed which of the three was the True Cross. Fragments of the Cross were broken up, and the pieces were widely distributed; in 348, in one of his Catecheses, Cyril of Jerusalem remarked that the "whole earth is full of the relics of the Cross of Christ." Most of the very small relics of the True Cross in Europe came from Constantinople after the city was captured and sacked in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. They were carved up by the present bishops and divided with other very precious relics among the knights; who, after their return to the homeland, donated them to churches and monasteries.