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122 - (ADDENDUM) ARMAND-CALLIAT. SILVER AND VERMEIL RELIC CROSS with rich engraved decoration of scrollwork and foliage, featuring 16 reliquary niches housing a total of 39 saints (St. Andrew the Apostle, St. Nicholas, St. John the Evangelist, St. Peter the Apostle, St. Paul the Apostle, St. Matthew the Apostle, St. Lawrence, St. Victoria, St. Felicity, St. Gregory the Pope, St. Clement the Pope, St. Sylvester the Pope, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Francis de Sales, St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. Louis Gonzaga, St. Stanislaus, St. Julian, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, St. Sabian, St. Philip Neri, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, ....).
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(ADDENDUM) ARMAND-CALLIAT. SILVER AND VERMEIL RELIC CROSS with rich engraved decoration of scrollwork and foliage, featuring 16 reliquary niches housing a total of 39 saints (St. Andrew the Apostle, St. Nicholas, St. John the Evangelist, St. Peter the Apostle, St. Paul the Apostle, St. Matthew the Apostle, St. Lawrence, St. Victoria, St. Felicity, St. Gregory the Pope, St. Clement the Pope, St. Sylvester the Pope, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Francis de Sales, St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. Louis Gonzaga, St. Stanislaus, St. Julian, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, St. Sabian, St. Philip Neri, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, ....). The vermeil back opens with a hinge and is marked “JC” for Jesus Christ. Bears red wax seals bearing the seal of Archbishop Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald (Archbishop of Lyon from 1839 to 1870). First-title Minerva hallmark. Hallmark of master goldsmith Thomas-Joseph Armand, known as ARMAND-CALLIAT (1822–1901). Mounted on a blackened wooden altar CROSS with a stepped base; the upper section features a notch designed to hold the reliquary. Height: 22.2 cm Height with supporting cross: 45.5 cm. Biographical note: The patron who commissioned this reliquary cross, Monsignor Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald (1787–1870), served as bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay (from 1823 to 1840) and then Archbishop of Lyon until his death (from 1839 to 1870), at the behest of King Louis Philippe.
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Sacred Art of the Catholic ChurchAuction house
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