File:Relics from the Vasa collection.JPG

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English: Relics from the Vasa collection at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 
                    Polski:  Relikwie z kolekcji Wazów w Opactwie Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
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English: Relics from the Vasa collection at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Polski: Relikwie z kolekcji Wazów w Opactwie Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
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A. Reliquiary of St. Placidus in the form of a box with a sloping roof, made of crystal and gilded silver.
B. Reliquiary of St. Casimir in the form of an octagonal monstrance, made of gilded silver, containing a bone from the saint's finger.
C. Reliquiary of St. Casimir in the form of a box with a sloping roof, made of cristal and gilded silver.

D. Reliquiary of St. Florian and St. Stanislaus in the form of a gold medallion with a chain of 21 links. At the back engraved emblem and inscription: Andreas Lipski episcopus cracoviensis (Andrzej Lipski, bishop of Kraków 1630-1631).
Date before 1668
date QS:P571,+1668-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1668-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Gold, silver, gilt, crystal
Current whereabouts unknown
Object history

1669: transferred to John II Casimir of Poland, Paris
1673: inherited by Anne de Gonzague de Clèves, Paris

1684: given to Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés by Anne de Gonzague de Clèves
Notes
English: Possibly destroyed during the French Revolution.
Source/Photographer Own work after a 1724 engraving by Jean Chaufeurier
Danuta Gawinowa (1991). Kultura średniowieczna i staropolska. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. ISBN 83-01093-83-8
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