| One of the six double silver plates from Urs Graf's reliquary bust from St Urban dated 1519. On the right Christ leans down from the cross to embrace Bernard. Signed with monogram and dagger. The inscription reads: STRINCIT ET HVNC LINGNO (sic) CRVCIS REFLEX' IESUS ('Jesus bends down from the wood of the Cross and embraces this man'). The left has a kneeling Abbot Kastler accompanied by a number of his monks kneeling and offering the Reliquary Box. From this we have some idea of what this looked like. The inscription: ACCIPE QVOD DEDIM' PATER O SANCTISSIME MVNVS ('Receive the gift which we have given, O holy Father'). Leaning against the central column are, on the abbot's side, his coat of arms with crozier, and, on the Amplexus side, the arms of Clairvaux also with a crozier. (See also VA04-08, and VA10-11).
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