Russian Store - Reliquary theca with relics of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, the Miracleworker of Bari

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I received my relic today (St. Joseph,St Peter etc) Thank you. I really like it. Till next time order.?

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Boris, Germany

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Bruce, Australia

Many thanks icon has arrived here in Queensland, Australia. It is wonderful. Here with the others from your shop. Room for another soon!

Bro Richard, CA

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Reliquary theca with relics of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, the Miracleworker of Bari

Oval glass-fronted silvered brass reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. The relics are affixed to a gilt paper starburst on the ground of red silk, surrounded by silver wire ornamentation and identified in Latin on manuscript cedula label as Ex Ossibus S. Nicolai Ep. Myr. (of the bone of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra). On the back, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of Fr. Francesco Emilio Cugini (†1872), Bishop (from 1855 - Archbishop) of Modena, Italy.

Saint Nicholas of Myra († ca. 345) was buried in a church in Myra (modern-day Turkey) and his tomb by the Middle Ages already became a popular place of Christian pilgrimage. In May of 1087, under the pretext of preserving them from the Muslim Turks who occupied Myra, relics of the Saint were stolen by Italian merchants from the place of his burial and transported to Italy where they are still kept in a crypt of a specially built Basilica of St. Nicholas in Bari. According to legend, when Italian merchants opened the sarcophagus, a spicy smell of myrrh spread from the relics of Saint. Merchants from Bari managed to take only some of the relics of the Saint, leaving many smaller fragments in the grave. These fragments were collected by Venetian sailors during the First Crusade (1096-1099) and taken to Venice, where they were kept in the church of St. Nicholas. Modern scientific research in Bari and Venice proved that fragments in two cities belonged to the same skeleton. A small part of the relics is still kept in Turkey in Church of St. Nicholas.