Reliquary bust of Saint Florinda. Reliquary bust representing Saint Florinda in 17th century Baroque polychrome carving. It comes from the church of Belén in Barcelona. In the centre of the reliquary bust there is a cavity where the relic of the saint was kept for display, so that the image of the saint for veneration and the relic that was kept could be brought together in a single liturgical object.

The image entered the Museu Diocesà de Barcelona in the first stage of the formation of the museum's collection (1916).

On the morning of 22 July 1936, the Conciliar Seminary of Barcelona, the building where the Museu Diocesà was housed, was set on fire at the outbreak of the Civil War. The fire burnt many of the pieces that were kept in the museum, and other pieces that were able to be safeguarded were badly affected by the flames and smoke, as can be seen in the reliquary bust of Saint Florinda. This piece shows blistering and some cracks caused by the high temperatures to which the image was exposed during the fire.

Liturgical set. Inside the liturgical case there is a wine cup used as a chalice, a coffee-serving saucer used as a paten, a compact used as a pyx and a handkerchief used as a corporal or purificator.

These everyday objects were used as sacred vessels and objects of worship during clandestine worship during the Civil War (1936-39). The liturgical ensemble comes from a private donation to the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona.

Museu Diocesà de Barcelona.The first diocesan museums in Spain were founded in Catalonia between the 19th and 20th centuries, with the mission of preserving the material and immaterial value of all those objects that were in the parishes of the diocese and were no longer used for worship. On 22 October 1916 the Barcelona Diocesan Museum was inaugurated on the ground floor of the Conciliar Seminary. Its first director, Mn. Manuel Trens Ribes, was one of the most influential ecclesiastics in the world of Catalan culture of his time. He soon began to think about moving the museum to the Casa de l'Almoina, a move that for various reasons did not become effective until 1989, under the direction of Mn. Josep Mª Martí i Bonet. At that time the building was restored, and the Museu Diocesà de Barcelona opened its doors in the Casa de l'Almoina with the exhibition "Millenum. Història i art de l'Església catalana" (Millenum. History and Art of the Catalan Church).