Antique silver reliquary relic Saint Vincent de Paul (hospital workers)

Description: This is a antique silver pendant, inside a relic of Saint Vincent de Paul.Relic loose in pendant,wax seal and threads intact.Comes from a convent in Belgium. Measures 1,3x1,1 inch.Shipping and handling US$ 27,00 by insured priority mail and tracking number. All my items are securely packet, to avoid all possible damage. Our Non Paying Buyer process is now automatically managed by Ebay. The process starts four days after auction end and closes as soon as payment is received. As per Ebay policy,this reliquary does not contain human remains but only objects of devotion. Please be carefull when buying relics online. Fake relics are increasingly more and more of a problem. Most of the relics I sell are from convents in Belgium and Italy. I have been collecting relics for more than 25 years. I consider myself an expert. Please contact me if you have any questions.Please contact me if you have any questions. Items cannot be returned! Please see my other auctions for more antique catholic itemsSaint Vincent de PaulMemorial 27 September formerly 19 July ProfileBorn to a peasant family. A highly intelligent youth, Vincent spent four years with the Franciscan friars at Acq, France getting an education. Tutor to children of a gentlemen in Acq. He began divinity studies in 1596 at the University of Toulouse. Ordained at age 20.Taken captive by Turkish pirates to Tunis, and sold into slavery. Freed in 1607 when he converted one of his owners to Christianity.Returning to France, he served as parish priest near Paris where he started organizations to help the poor, nursed the sick, found jobs for the unemployed, etc. Chaplain at the court of Henry IV of France. With Louise de Marillac, founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity. Instituted the Congregation of Priests of the Mission (Lazarists). Worked always for the poor, the enslaved, the abandoned, the ignored, the pariahs.Born 24 April 1581 near Ranquine, Gascony near Dax, southwest France the town is now known as Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Landes, France Died 27 September 1660 at Paris, France of natural causes body found incorrupt when exhumed in 1712 body defleshed by a flood; skeleton encased in a wax effigy in the house of the Vincentian fathers in Paris heart incorrupt; displayed in a reliquary in the chapel of the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity in Paris Beatified 21 August 1729 by Pope Benedict XIII Canonized 16 June 1737 by Pope Clement XII Patronage against leprosy charitable societies (given on 12 May 1885 by Pope Leo XIII) charitable workers charities horses hospital workers hospitals lepers lost articles orphans poor people prisoners spiritual help volunteers Brothers of Charity Saint Vincent de Paul Societies Sisters of Charity Vincentian Congregation Vincentian Service Corps Madagascar Aire et Dax, France, diocese of New Orleans, Louisiana, archdiocese of Richmond, Virginia, diocese of Saint Louis, Missouri, archdiocese of San Vincente, Misiones, Argentina

Price: 250 USD

Location: Amsterdam

End Time: 2024-09-04T12:57:11.000Z

Shipping Cost: 27 USD