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This pendant is carved in minute detail. It opens up to show St John the Evangelist and Christ as the ‘Man of Sorrows’, displaying the five wounds of his Crucifixion and surrounded by the instruments of his death.","physicalDescription":"Boxwood rosary bead. 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