1 Romanesque - Style Very Rare Cylinder-Reliquary - Relic Ex Ossibus St. Gerard Majella
Very Rare Cylinder-Reliquary - Relic Ex Ossibus St. Gerard Majella style Romanesque - Style en Wood / Glass / Originally Sealed, Italy 18 th century
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5078931
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Width:
7 cm ( 2.76 inch)
Height:
25 cm ( 9.84 inch)
Depth:
7 cm ( 2.76 inch)
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Gerard Majella
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Portrait of Gerard Majella.
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| Born | 6 April 1726 Muro Lucano, Basilicata, Kingdom of Naples |
| Died | 16 October 1755 (aged 29) Materdomini, Campania, Kingdom of Naples |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church (The Redemptorists and Campania, Italy) |
| Beatified | 29 January 1893 by Pope Leo XIII |
| Canonized | 11 December 1904 by Pope Pius X |
| Major shrine | Shrine of St. Gerard Majella, Materdomini, Avellino, Italy |
| Feast | 16 October |
| Attributes | Young man in a Redemptorist habit, skull |
| Patronage | Children (and unborn children in particular); childbirth; mothers (and expectant mothers in particular); motherhood; falsely accused people; good confessions; lay brothers. |