Name/Title
Box with Crocheted Badges and RelicsEntry/Object ID
2025.6.127Description
Title [assigned by archives]: Box with Crocheted Badges and Relics
This box contains silk thread and hooks used to crochet the edges of relics and sacred badges. The Sister who owned this box crocheted numerous badges of the Apostleship of Prayer with imagery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Several smaller badges contain third class relics, which have been touched to the first- or second-class relics of saints.
Sister Alice Holden, CCVI donated this box to Archives.
Título [asignado por los archivos]: Caja con insignias y reliquias tejidas a ganchillo
Esta caja contiene hilo de seda y ganchillos utilizados para tejer a ganchillo los bordes de reliquias e insignias sagradas. La hermana propietaria de esta caja tejió numerosas insignias del Apostolado de la Oración con imágenes del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús. Varias insignias más pequeñas contienen reliquias de tercera clase, que han sido tocadas por reliquias de primera o segunda clase de santos.
La hermana Alice Holden, CCVI, donó esta caja a los Archivos.Collection
Personnel Membership-SistersMade/Created
Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
Unknown artist; undatedLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
CrochetNomenclature Primary Object Term
NeedleworkNomenclature Class
ArtNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsGetty AAT
* Untyped Getty AAT
crochetingLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Crocheting, Religious articlesDimensions
Dimension Description
Dimensions of wooden boxHeight
2 inWidth
5-1/2 inDepth
3 in
