Christian Jewellery

Walsingham in Norfolk, with its miracle working image of the Virgin Mary, was one of the principal European pilgrim resorts, even eclipsing Canterb...

The relics of St Nicholas found their way to the city of Bari in Italy in the 11th century, having been stolen from Myra (in Modern Turkey) by Bari...

Pilgrim badge depicting the legend of the cutting of the cloak. St Martin of Tours was an extremely popular medieval saint; particularly in France,...

St. Roch was an important and popular late medieval saint, mainly due to his reputation as a deliverer from plague and contagion. According to his ...

Saint Werburga was an Anglo Saxon abbess. Her body was translated to Chester from the Midlands due to the Viking threat. This badge depicts one of ...

Becket’s martyrdom in 1170 at the hands of King Henry II’s knights, was to ensure Canterbury’s position as the principal English pilgrim shrine. It...

Saint Edmund. The Saxon king Edmund was put to death by the Vikings following his defeat at the battle of Thetford in 869. Traditionally, he is sup...

Saint Jos, was the son of a 7th century king of Brittany. He gave up his wealth and position in favour of the life of a pilgrim and subsequently li...

One of the final and most important stations on the Canterbury ‘tour’ was the fabulous head reliquary. This life size, golden, jewel encrusted reli...

From the 13th century, hollow cast figurines of Saint Thomas were a common souvenir of Canterbury. Although these items seemingly went out of produ...

The Archangel Michael was regarded in the middle ages as leader of the spiritual forces in the fight against evil. He was also regarded as a protec...

The cult of Saint George achieved widespread popularity in the late middle ages and by the mid 14th century he had replaced St Edmund and Edward th...

Saint Catherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular of medieval saints. She was martyred in the 4th century for her Christian belief by order...

By the 14th century the Sudarium or Veronica had become Rome’s principal relic. This relic was reputedly the cloth on which St Veronica had wiped t...

By the 12th century the shrine of St James the Greater, at Compostela in Galicia, north-west Spain, had joined Rome and Jerusalem as one of the thr...

John Shorne was the rector of North Marston in Buckinghamshire from 1290 until 1314. Although not canonised, Shorne was popularly regarded as a Sai...

Etheldreda (or Audrey), was Abbess of the convent she had founded at Ely in the 7th century on the site now occupied by Ely Cathedral. Pilgrimage t...

Alban, a Romano- British legionary at Verulamium, was converted to Christianity, but, after being arrested and refusing to give up his faith, was e...

This badge depicts St Cecilia playing an organ. It is thought that Cecilia died in Sicily in the 3nd century. She became the patroness of Musicians...

This badge, the original of which was found in Norfolk, depicts a famous episode from the life of St Edward the Confessor. He is shown giving his r...

This badge depicts the Annunciation, with the archangel Gabriel to the left and the Virgin Mary to the right. In the centre is a fleur de lis – the...

The cult of the Virgin Mary gained widespread appeal throughout Europe in the medieval period, with many shrines to her achieving international pop...

Walsingham is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, whose symbol is the lily, representing purity. When found, the original of this badge was lacking its j...

One of the major attractions at Canterbury Cathedral was the ‘corona’ reliquary, housed in the Corona Chapel, and in which the severed crown of Sai...