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Fr. Norbert

Thank you so much for the beautiful relic which arrived in excellent condition and great time (a couple of days ago). It is amazing and worth every penny! May God reward you for your "rescuing" of the relics of His saints and holy ones. Love and prayers,

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French box reliquary with relics of St. Denis of Paris, the patron saint of France

An oblong rectangular silver box standing on ball feet with glass panes on the front, back, and top, and four small finials on top corners. The reliquary is housing a substantial and historically important ex ossibus (of the bone) relics of St. Denis of Paris. The relics consist of an intact ulna forearm bone and a smaller skull (?) bone enclosed in a separate silver theca. The relics are identified in Latin on a manuscript cedula label affixed inside of a theca as S. Dyonisii E.M. (St. Denis, Bishop and Martyr). The reliquary is enclosed by a cord of red silk secured by a seal of red Spanish wax with an inprint of a coat of arms of an unidentified Roman Catholic Bishop.

Saint Denis of Paris was a 3rd-century Christian martyr and saint who suffered under the persecution of the emperor Decius shortly after AD 250. According to his hagiographies, he was bishop of Paris (then Lutetia) in the third century and was martyred for his faith by decapitation. Denis is the most famous cephalophore of Christian Faith, with a tradition claiming that the decapitated bishop picked up his head and walked several miles while preaching a sermon on repentance. He is venerated in the Catholic Church as the patron saint of France and Paris and is accounted one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Specifically, Denis is invoked against diabolical possession and headaches. A chapel was raised at the site of his burial by a local Christian woman; it was later expanded into an abbey and basilica, around which grew up the French city of Saint-Denis, now a suburb of Paris. The feast of Saint Denis had been celebrated on October 9th since at least the year 800.