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Michael, VA

The icon is perfect. The blessing that this brings to our house is beyond measure. I look forward to potential business with you in the future. Thank you again.

Dushan, Alberta, Canada

The Old Believer icon of Our Lady of the Unburnt Thornbush is exquisite. It arrived this morning and is now hanging in my icon corner, alongside the other beautiful antique icons that I have acquired from the Russian Store.

Марина, США

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Fr James, England

Thank you so much for the relic of St Pancras and the beautiful reliquary, everything arrived safely and well packaged. Every blessing to you.

Reliquary theca with pebble relic of St. Michael the Archangel from the Grotto of Monte Gargano

Modern cruciform glass-fronted theca of gilt metal containing a scarce sizable second-class relic of Saint Michael the Archangel from the cave in the Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo sul Gargano. The relic is affixed on a background of red silk and titled on the back of the reliquary theca.

The Sanctuary of Saint Michael the Archangel (Santuario di San Michele Arcangelo) is a Roman Catholic shrine on Mount Gargano, Italy, the oldest shrine in Western Europe dedicated to the Archangel Michael and has been an important site of pilgrimage since the early Middle Ages. The Parco Nazionale del Gargano protects the historic site and its environs. In 2011, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a group of seven inscribed as Longobards in Italy: Places of Power (568-774 A.D.). Monte Sant'Angelo was a popular pilgrimage site on the way to Jerusalem; pilgrims traveled from as far as Ireland to visit the “Celestial Basilica.” Among the pilgrims who visited the Saint Michael Archangel Sanctuary were many popes (Gelasius I, Leo IX, Urban II, Alexander III, Gregory X, Celestine V, John XXIII as Cardinal, John Paul II), saints (Bridget of Sweden, Bernard of Clairvaux, Thomas Aquinas), emperors, kings, and princes (Louis II of Italy, Otto III, Henry II, Matilda of Tuscany, Charles I of Naples, Ferdinand II of Aragon). St. Francis of Assisi also visited the Sanctuary but, feeling unworthy to enter the grotto, stopped in prayer and meditation at the entrance, kissed a stone, and carved on it the sign of the cross in the form “T” (tau).