Relic Of Saint Barbara V.m.

Relic of Saint Barbara V.M.
Silver container, original sealing wax.
Saint Barbara is a Christian martyr. The place and time in which she lived, due to the numerous legends that arose around her name, are not clearly identifiable, but her cult is attested in the Christian communities of the East (Egypt, Constantinople) and the West (Rome, France) since the 6th-7th century and enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages thanks to the Golden Legend; removed from the general Roman calendar in 1969 due to doubts about its historicity, she remains a very popular saint thanks to the number of her patrons (geologists, firefighters, navy, bomb disposal experts, artillerymen, engineers, miners, architects, etc.). In the Orthodox and Catholic traditions of the Byzantine rite, she is honored with the title of megalomartyr.