1 Gothic - style Reliquary - Relic Caput ( Skull ) St. Adelina / St. Adeliné V.M.
Reliquary - Relic Caput ( Skull ) St. Adelina / St. Adeliné V.M. style Gothic - style en Bronze / Gilt / Glass, France 19 th century / Skull before 1750
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2804228
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Width:
37 cm (14.57 inch)
Height:
50 cm (19.69 inch)
Depth:
33 cm (12.99 inch)
St. Adelina / St. Adeliné V.M.
Replaced from an earlier wooden reliquary
Feastday: October 20
Death: 1125
An abbess, the sister of St. Vitalis, and a noblewoman of Normandy. She was a granddaughter of William the Conqueror and a dame of that Norman family. Adelina became the abbess of the Benedictine Convent of La Blanche in Normandy, a religious community founded by her brother.