This is a antique copper theca with silver front, inside a fc relic of Saint Paul the Apostle. Relic in place, and wax seal and threads intact. Sealed with the seal of Henricus Franciscus Bracq (1804–1888) who was the 22nd bishop of Ghent, Belgium.Comes from a convent in Belgium. Diameter 1,5 inch.Shipping and handling US$ 37.00 by insured priority mail and tracking number. All my items are securely packet, to avoid all possible damage ( look at my feedback).

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Saint Paul the Apostle

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Jewish Talmudic student. Pharisee. Tent-maker by trade. Saul the Jew hated and persecuted Christians as heretical, even assisting at the stoning of Saint Stephen the Martyr. On his way to Damascus, Syria, to arrest another group of faithful, he was knocked to the ground, struck blind by a heavenly light, and given the message that in persecuting Christians, he was persecuting Christ. The experience had a profound spiritual effect on him, causing his conversion to Christianity. He was baptized, changed his name to Paul to reflect his new persona, and began travelling, preaching and teaching. His letters to the churches he help found form a large percentage of the New Testament. Knew and worked with many of the earliest saints and fathers of the Church. Martyr.

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Henricus Franciscus Bracq (1804–1888) was the 22nd bishop of Ghent, Belgium.

Bracq was born in Ghent on 26 February 1804. He was ordained to the priesthood on 2 August 1827. From 1830 to 1864 he taught Sacred Scripture at the Major Seminary of Ghent, where he opposed the spread of the opinions of Lamennais. He was one of the founding editors of the Mémorial du Clergé (1833–1834) and of De Vlaming, and an active contributor to the Journal historique et littéraire published in Liège. From 1836 to 1864 he was also confessor to the refounded Visitation Sisters of Ghent.

 

In November 1864 Bracq was elected bishop of Ghent in succession to Louis-Joseph Delebecque, who had died the previous month. He was consecrated on 1 May 1865. As bishop he founded the Sint-Lievenscollege in Ghent in 1865, as well as diocesan secondary schools in Ledeberg, Aalst and Ninove (1872), and opposed the semi-traditionalism taught at the Catholic University of Leuven by Casimir Ubaghs. In 1866 he founded a diocesan weekly, De Godsdienstige Week van Vlaanderen. An Ultramontane by inclination, he attended the First Vatican Council, promoted Peter's Pence, and supported the Papal Zouaves. Bracq took an active role in the social and political crisis known as the First School War, in opposition to the encroachments of the state on Catholic education. He died in Ghent on 17 June 1888.