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Biblioteca Vaticana - Museo Sacro Croce gemmata e custodia della medesima fatta a cura di Pasquale I (817-824)

Cruciform silver case and gemmated cross. The case is decorated on the external faces with embossed images, that represent episodes of the life of Christ: Christ among the Doctors of the Temple, the Miracle at Cana, Christ and the Virgin Mary, St. Peter and the Apostles, the Mission of Christ to the Apostles (in the centre Christ between Virgin and St. Peter). A Latin inscription is located at the centre of the outer face of the case.

University of Bologna

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Title: Biblioteca Vaticana - Museo Sacro Croce gemmata e custodia della medesima fatta a cura di Pasquale I (817-824)

Description:

Cruciform silver case and gemmated cross.

The case is decorated on the external faces with embossed images, that represent episodes of the life of Christ: Christ among the Doctors of the Temple, the Miracle at Cana, Christ and the Virgin Mary, St.

Peter and the Apostles, the Mission of Christ to the Apostles (in the centre Christ between Virgin and St.

Peter).

A Latin inscription is located at the centre of the outer face of the case.

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Inscription: [left to right] “In Roma nella Calcografia della R.C.A. | al Fiè di Marmo” (in the illustration); [left to right] "Il Sommo Pontefice esposto nella Cappella | dell 'S....

Crown given to the Madonna della Ghiara, from Maria Vergine Coronata; Descrizione e dichiarazione della Divota Solennita fatta in Reggio li 13 Maggio 1674