OLPS - Gift from Rome and Fr General CSsR...

This wooden block - attached to the bottom of this icon 13/20 -

was part of the retaining strip that held the icon from 1866 to 1994! 

Gifted by Fr General, the Most Rev'd Rogerio Gomes CSsR

to the London Province

on the Solemnity of

St Alphonsus Liguori

on the

1st August 2025.

I certify that the wooden block on the metal support marked 13/20, at the bottom of the engraved reproduction of Santa Maria del Perpetuo Soccorso, is part of the retaining strip that, from 1866 to 1994, closed the lower part of the original icon venerated in our church of St. Alphonsus in Rome.

Rogerio Gomes CSsR - Superior General 

Rome, November 9, 2024