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In 1304 Charles II of Naples commissioned three Provancal goldsmiths, Etienne Godefroyd, Guillaume de Verdelay, and Milet d'Auxerre, to produce a reliquary bust of the patron saint of Naples, San Gennaro. It was probably intended to mark the one-thousandth anniversary of the saint's martyrdom. This kind of relics were carried through city streets on festival days and in times of peril.
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