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Classicist-style skull reliquary of one of the holy virgins, companions of the Martyr Ursula

Presumably France, late 18th century.

Contains an almost complete skull wrapped in linen fabric with crown in cloister work, crowned with a dove with in the beak a text band ‘Veni Sponsa Christi’ (come, Bride of Christ). On the four corners of the cabinet a wax seal of the superior general of the Ursulines in Flavigny (FR).
* there are several Ursula legends: the number of companions varies from 11 to 11,000.

Provenance: from an Ursuline Convent, presumably France.

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