Breslau Cabinet of Natural and Artificial Curiosities

goldsmith and silversmith of Augsburg, whose costs ascend to 14,890 florins, and for the most part came from the bequests of the Canons Balthasar Lisch of Hornau, Suffragan, and Ferdinand Leopold, Duke of Holstein, Dean of this Cathedral Church; for which reason their insignias also appear in the upper part. Furthermore, in the middle is the image of the Savior, or Ecce Homo Behold the Man; and across, Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist, with many angels in statues cast from silver; but in prominent relief, Saint Vincent and Saint Hedwig are shown, all of them illuminated by gilded suns and covered by a silver canopy. And on the feast days of the Apostles and others, four huge silver statues are seen, representing the above-mentioned three Patrons and the Patroness of the Temple. Also an effigy of Saint Vincent expressed to the chest, which Johann Klinge, born in Augsburg, fashioned here two years ago, whose weight has 112 marks, and the price amounts to the sum of 1,792 florins. Enclosed in this is the head of Saint Vincent, which Hieronymus, the seventh Bishop, or the first who bore the name of Bishop of Wrocław, and who moved the bishopric here, is said to have brought from Italy, the rest of whose body is venerated in the Cathedral church in Lisbon. In addition, a part of the head of Saint John the Baptist is shown enclosed in a golden patina small dish or plate, which, when the Hussites were rioting in Bohemia, was brought to Wrocław into the Temple of Saint John, from where it did not return to Prague. Regarding the index finger with which Saint John the Baptist demonstrated our Savior, the Lamb of God the sacrificial lamb, the Title: Most Full Michael Joseph Fiebiger, Prelate and Master at Saint Matthias, writes in the renewed Helenian Silesiography, Part II, Chapter VIII, § 8, page 33:

"Furthermore, the finger, which is displayed among the other sacred relics in this Cathedral, we believe with human faith to be that of Saint John the Baptist; yet the cited Reverend Father Crugerius causes us doubt that this is the index finger with which he demonstrated Christ, the Savior of the human race, as the Lamb of God. He asserts that this sacred index finger of the right hand of Saint John, enclosed in crystal and adorned with gold, was shown to him by the Cistercian religious in the Ossegg Monastery at the borders of Bohemia."

There is also in this Johannine Basilica a stone, as they say, miraculous, in which the soles of the feet of Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr, appear to be quite deeply impressed.