Reliquary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel / Archangel Raphael Reliquary
Place made:Mexico
Period: Viceroyalty of New Spain
Date: 18th century
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Florence Jaggi
Object number: 56.6422.2
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Although referred to as "reliquaries," very few of these eighteenth and nineteenth century objects ever contained relics of saints. Instead, they were used to express continuing devotion to a particular saint or to show thanks for a favor received.
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