RELIQUARY - RELIC THECA +2 RELICS S. BERNADETTE LOURDES

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RELIQUARY - RELIC THECA +2 RELICS S. BERNADETTE LOURDES

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Sold Date: 04/02/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Fraternal, Political, Organizations

Dear ebay police- this is not a human body part, but a piece of devotion and tfore corresponds to new ebay rules!!

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I am proud to offer you a rare reliquary:

This is an old relic theca. Secure behind glass, the theca contains 2 important relics of S. Benadette (Bernadette of Lourdes, S. Maria- Bernada).

Bernadette of Lourdes
Also known as Bernada; Bernardetta; Bernardette Soubirous; Bernardette; Maria Bernadette; Marie Bernarde; Sleeping Saint of Nevers Memorial 16 April ; 18 February in France Profile Oldest of six children in a very poor family headed by Francois and Louise Casterot. Hired out as a servant from age 12 to 14. Shepherdess . On 11 February 1858 , around the time of her first Communion , she received a vision of the Virgin ; her own account of it is in the Readings section below. She received seventeen more in the next five months, and was led to a spring of healing waters. She moved into a house with the sisters of Nevers at Lourdes w she lived, worked, and learned to read and write. The sisters cared for the sick and indigent , and at age 22 they admitted Bernadette into their order since she was both. Always sick herself, and often mistreated by her superiors, she died with a prayer for Mary 's aid. Since the appearances of Mary to young Bernadette in 1858 , more than 200 million people have visited the shrine of Lourdes . Born 7 January 1844 at Lourdes , France Died 16 April 1879 , Nevers, France of natural causes; body incorrupt Beatified 1925 Canonized 1933 by Pope Pius XI Name Meaning brave as a bear Patronage bodily ills , illness , Lourdes France , people ridiculed for their piety , poverty , shepherdesses , shepherds , sick people , sickness Prayers Prayer re... Images Gallery of Bernadette and/or Our Lady of Lourdes [ 24 images, 363 kb] Storefront Commercial Links related to Saint Bernadette and/or Our Lady of Lourdes Readings Nothing is anything more to me; everything is nothing to me, but Jesus: neither things nor persons, neither ideas nor emotions, neither honor nor sufferings. Jesus is for me honor, delight, heart and soul.
- Saint Bernadette You must receive God well; give Him a loving welcome, for then He has to pay us rent.
- Saint Bernadette The more I am crucified, the more I rejoice.
Saint Bernadette Soubirous I had gone down one day with two other girls to the bank of the river Gave when suddenly I heard a kind of rustling sound. I turned my head toward the field by the side of the river, but the trees seemed quite still and the noise was evidently not from them. Then I looked up and caught sight of the cave w I saw a lady wearing a lovely white dress with a bright belt. On top of each of her feet was a pale yellow rose, the same color as her rosary beads.
At this I rubbed my eyes, thinking I was seeing things, and I put my hands into the fold of my dress w my rosary was. I wanted to make the sign of the cross, but for the life of me I couldn't manage it, and my hand just fell down. Then the lady made the sign of the cross herself, and at the second attempt I managed to do the same, though my hands were trembling. Then I began to say the rosary while the lady let her beads clip through her fingers, without moving her lips. When I stopped saying the Hail Mary, she immediately vanished.
I asked my two companions if they had noticed anything, but they said no. Of course, they wanted to know what I was doing, and I told them that I had seen a lady wearing a nice white dress, though I didn't know who she was. I told them not to say anything about it, and they said I was silly to have anything to do with it. I said they were wrong, and I came back next Sunday, feeling myself drawn to the place....
The third time I went, the lady spoke to me and asked me to come every day for fifteen days. I said I would and then she said that she wanted me to tell the priests to build a chapel t She also told me t...