Reliquary.- Reliquary of 7 Female Saints, being Saints Lucia, Agatha, Agnes, Catherine of Siena, Cecelia, Catherine ?of Bologna and Veronica Giuliani, with small typed labels and set within a decorative fabric arrangement, sealed at the rear with parchment, thread and Cardinal's red wax seal (unbroken), contained within a glass-fronted metal medallion (perhaps brass, or silver plated), detachable in two parts, and accompanied by the original document of authenticity issued by Cardinal Lucido Maria Paroccchi then Vicar General of Rome, in Latin on paper, printed text within border and manuscript additions and signatures in ink and also stamped in blind with the Cardinal's arms, folds, with small manuscript notes to verso, Rome, July 1884.

⁂ A beautiful personal reliquary of 7 important female saints: all relics of the third degree, being described as either 'ex velis seria in quibus involuta fecerunt ossa' or 'vela imbuta sanguine' (that is fragments, from the veils in which was wrapped the saints' holy bones or blood).