antique wooden crucifix 4x relic/reliquary/corpus

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This is a antique wooden crucifix with very detailled corpus in "terre de pipe"(t is a crack in the base,see picture).T are four relic's on small hand made pictures (never seen this before).The relic's are from St Ignatius,St Stephan and Ste Francis Xavier.Measures 11.5x25 inch. Shipping and handling US$ 39.00 by registered priority mail .All my items are securely packet, to avoid all possible damage. I prefure payment by Paypal or cash by registered mail. Please see my other auctions for more antique catholic items. Ignatius of Loyola Also known as Inigo Lopez de Loyola Memorial 31 July Profile Spanish nobility. Youngest of twelve children . Page in the Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Military education. Soldier , entering the army in 1517 , and serving in several campaigns. Wounded in the leg by a cannonball at the siege of Pampeluna on 20 May 1521 , an injury that left him partially crippled for life. During his recuperation the only books he had access to were The Golden Legend , a collection of lives of the saints, and the Life of Christ by Ludolph the Carthusian . These books, and the time spent in contemplation, changed him. On his recovery he took a vow of chastity, hung his sword before the altar of the Virgin of Montserrat , and donned a pilgrim 's robes. Lived in a cave from 1522 to 1523 , contemplating the way to live a Christian life. Pilgrim to Rome and the Holy Land in 1523 , w he worked to convert Muslims. In 1528 he began studying theology in Barcelona , Alcala, and Paris , receiving his degree on 14 March 1534 . His meditations, prayers, visions and insights led to forming the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus on 15 August 1534 ; it received papal approval in 1541 . Friend of James Lainez, Alonso Salmerón, Nicholas Bobadilla, Simón Rodriguez, Blessed Peter Faber , and Saint Francis Xavier , the group that formed the core of the new Society . He never used the term Jesuit , which was coined as an insult by his opponents; the Society today uses the term with pride. He travelled Europe and the Holy Lands, then settled in Rome to direct the Jesuits. His health suffered in later years, and he was nearly blind at death . The Jesuits today have over 500 universities and colleges, 30,000 members, and teach over 200,000 students each year. Born 1491 at Loyola, Guipuzcoa , Spain as Inigo Lopez de Loyola Died of fever on 31 July 1556 at Rome , Italy Beatified 27 July 1609 by Pope Paul V Canonized 12 March 1622 by Pope Gregory XV Patronage Basque country ; diocese of Bilbao, Spain ; Bizkaia, Spain ; Gipuzkoa, Spain ; Guipuscoa, Spain ; Guipúzcoa, Spain ; Jesuit Order ; Jesuits ; military ordinariate of the Philippines ; retreats ; Society of Jesus ; soldiers ; Spiritual Exercises (by Pope Pius XI ); Vizcaya, Spain FRANCIS XAVIER Also known as Apostle to the Far East Memorial 3 December Profile Nobleman from the Basque reqion. Studied and taught philosophy at the University of Paris , and planned a career as a professor . Friend of Saint Ignatius of Loyola who convinced him to use his talents to spread the Gospel. One of the founding Jesuits, and the first Jesuit missionary . Priest . In Goa , while waiting to take ship, India , he preached in the street, worked with the sick, and taught children their catechism . He would walk through the streets ringing a bell to call the children to their studies. Said to have converted the entire city. He scolded his patron, King John of Portugal , over the slave trade: "You have no right to spread the Catholic faith while you take away all the country's riches. It upsets me to know that at the hour of your death you may be ordered out of paradise." Tremendously successful missionary for ten years in India , the East Indies , and Japan , baptizing more than 40,000. His epic finds him dining with head hunters, washing sores of lepers in Venice , teaching catechism to Indian children, baptizing 10,000 in a ... read more

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