Antique kiss reliquary relic True Cross Jesus (Engelbertus Sterckx) for Sale

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Antique kiss reliquary relic True Cross Jesus (Engelbertus Sterckx) For Sale

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Antique kiss reliquary relic True Cross Jesus (Engelbertus Sterckx):
$995.00

This is a antique copper kiss reliquary, with in the centre acopper theca with silver front, inside a relic of the True Cross of our LordJesus.Relic in place and wax seal and threads intact. Seal is from EngelbertusSterckx who was Archbishop at Mechelen. The copper kiss reliquary has some stains, pleaselook at the pictures.Comes from a convent in Belgium.Measures 6,2x5,5 inch.Shipping and handling US$ 27,00by insured priority mail and tracking number. All my items are securely packet,to avoid all possible damage.

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As per policy,this reliquary does not contain human remains but only objects ofdevotion.

Please be carefull when buying relics online. Fakerelics are increasingly more and more of a problem. Most of the relics I sellare from convents in Belgium and Italy. I have been collecting relics for morethan 25 years. I consider myself an expert. Please contactme if you have any questions.

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The MostHoly Wood of theCross of Our Lord Jesus Christ

According to several Church historians of the 4th and5th century, the True Cross was discovered in 325 AD when Emperor Constantinethe Great ordered the removal of a pagan temple built by Hadrian over the siteof the Calvary and the Holy Sepulchre. Beneath the structure, in an oldcistern, three crosses, the title with the inscription "Jesus of Nazareth,King of the Jews", and three nails were found. In the presence of theEmpress Helena, mother of Constantine, the Cross of Christ was identified bythe 'titulus' and the nail holes, and later confirmed by a miracle. It was laidupon a sick woman who was immediately miraculously cured.

Helena divided the most precious wood into severalparts, leaving a fragment in Jerusalem, sending a second to her son inConstantinople and taking a third to Rome. A part of it and half of the titlewith the inscription I NAZARINUS R... is still preserved and venerated in theBasilica di S. Croce, one of the seven main churches of the Eternal City. In1998, a careful investigation was commissioned by the Holy See and sevenIsraeli expertson the dating of inscriptions (comparativepalaeography)dated its letters into the 1st century, the time of Christ.This suddenly gave the 'legend of the Finding of the Cross' a lot ofcredibility.

Already in 349 AD, St. Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem,stated that the True Cross "has been distributed, fragment by fragment,from this spot (Jerusalem) and has already nearly filled the world",confirming the early practise of distributing tiny particles of the Most HolyWood. When St. Paulinus of Nola sent one to a friend in ca. 401 AD, he wrote:"Receive a great gift in a little case and take this segment as anarmament against the perils of the present and a pledge of everlastingsafety". He stressed that "even the smallest particle bears in it thewhole power of the Cross of Christ".

The claim of the "enlightened" sceptics,that all relics of the True Cross would be sufficient to build a ship, wasproven wrong in 1870 by the French scholar Rohault de Fleury, whomathematically calculated the volume of all relics of the True Cross in all EuropeanCathedrals and found them all together having the mass of only one third of aRoman cross!

Engelbertus Sterckxwas born 2 November 1792 in Ophem, Brabant. His parents were farmers. He beganhis studies in Vilvoorde, after which he studied humanities at the college ofEnghien (1805-1807). After secondary school in Leuven, he entered the MajorSeminary, Mechelen, on 18 September 1811 and in 1813 was named subsecretary ofarchdiocesan curia of Mechelen in 1813.

Sterckx was ordained, with an ageexemption, as priest for the Archdiocese of Mechelen, on 18 February 1815. Hewas vice-regent and professor of philosophy and moral theology at Mechelen from1815 to 1821 when he was appointed pastor at Boechout. In 1824 he was appointedarchpriest of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp. In 1827, he was named vicargeneral to Archbishop, Francis Anthony de Méan of Mechelen, and organized theopposition of the clergy to the religious policies of William I.