the treasure room

[low_delta]

On the right, that's the women taking Jesus down from a jewel-encrusted cross.


I like the mythological monster theme.


These are all reliquaries. On the left, you can see the radius of Saint Juan de Ribera.




An ornate and elaborate box. Several parts open, using two keys, one of which is seen behind it.

Comments

[i.livejournal.com]

oooh, parts of dead people! i like the dragon pitcher too.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It has a harpy on top.

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

How amazing! What incredible and beautiful artifacts. Thank you so much for posting.

I have heard that in every Catholic church the altar contains some relic from a saint. I don't know what my church contains, but I'll bet it is something from St. Patrick.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's true. Some big churches (such as this one) have relics of several saints, and in some cases, entire saints. The more popular a saint is, the less likely there are enough relics to go around, even when such relics aren't body parts. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if more churches had them than not.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

The crowns in picture 1 belong to the Virgin Mary who is Patroness of Seville: The Virgin of Kings (Monarchs) and the baby Jesus she holds. Seville is a royal city so her Mary Patroness refers to that aspect. Do you get the impression there are a lot of holy people watching out for Seville?
:D
The last two pictures are of the big silver processional monstrance taken out in procession on the feats of Corpus Christi in June. It's called the "Custodia de Arfe" as Arfe was the silversmith who made it. There's another similar one in the city of Toledo here in Spain.

I think all Catholic churches actually do have a relic in them.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Thanks (as usual :-) for the info.

I imagine place like St.Patrick's in Washington DC are able to petition Rome for a relic, probably of their patron saint, and probably a good one. But what sorts of relics do the small churches get? Like, what does St. Joseph's, in Grafton have?

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

The little places get the dregs of the relic pool. Bits of shoe leather?
LOL

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

My favorite was the pitcher.
I'm wondering how much weight in precious metals there is in all.