Antique Reliquary Cross Crucifix Arca Sepulerali Relic St. Therese Little Flower For Sale

This reliquary is complete, and the relics are a gift forits next caretaker. There is no “authentic” that comes with the reliquary.

For Easter, from Bertha’s (my mother) estatecollection comes this exceptional Reliquary Crucifix with a beautiful giftrelic encased in wax, with a Bishop’s intact red seal. The descriptioninside the cross is of an “ex arca sepulerali - fragment from the coffin.

St. Therese was buried on 4 October 1897, in a Carmeliteplot, in the municipal cemetery at Lisieux, where her parents had been buried.Her body was exhumed in September 1910 and the remains placed in a lead coffinand transferred to another tomb. This fragment is BELIEVED TO BE from the 1910 exhumationand is wood collected by a Carmelite sister.

The Reliquary is 4 inches long and is made of bronze withebony inlays. It weighs 2 ounces.

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