Casket of Saint Cugat information

Casket of Saint Cugat
The casket of Saint Cugat, by Joan de Gènova, and Arnau Campredon
Material	Gold, silver
Height	63
Width	63
Depth	26
Created	c. 1303
Period/culture	gothic
Present location	Museu Diocesà de Barcelona

The casket of Sant Cugat is a reliquary of gold from the beginning of the fourteenth century. It is made with embossed silver plates engraved and partly superimposed on a golden casket of wood, depicting scenes from the life and death of the martyr Saint Cugat. Its makers were Joan de Gènova and Arnau Campredon. During the seventeenth century, it was dismantled and built in a smaller size in which the plates were reused from the previous silver.

The casket was kept in the monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallès since the fourteenth century until 1835, when, due to the confiscation of the monastery, the casket with the relics were moved to the church Sant Cugat del Rec, Barcelona. It currently belongs to the collection of the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona.