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Relic Bundle with Saints Stephen, Sophie, Perpetua, Paul, Barnaba, Philip, Simon, Thaddeus, John the Apostle, and James
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These relics are housed in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineRelic Bundle with Saints Stephen, Sophie, Perpetua, Paul, Barnaba, Philip, Simon, Thaddeus, John the Apostle, and James, c. 1045. Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century. Compound weave or samite. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1931.462.i
