Absolutely fantastic Antique Spanish Holy Water Font with Silver Plated plaque of the Austrian King Albert and his Spanish Wife Isabella.

They are praying to the Black Madonna: our lady of Montserrat

(also shown in the pictures)

Please check out the fine details on this font. It is absolutely superb.

This is a REAL ANTIQUE HOLY WATER FONT CRUCIFIX Home Altar.

This Holy water fond originates from Spain

This  dates from the mid to late 1800s.

It is All original.

Please check out the *bone* material the backing is made of.

This  font is in excellent condition.

Just some fading of the silver from polishing.

It measures just over 3.5 ” or 9 cm tall.

Little background on the Royals:

Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (sometimes called Albrecht of Austria) (15 November 1559 – 13 July 1621) was, together with his wife Infanta Isabella of Spain, the daughter of Philip II of Spain, co-sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 1621, ruling the Habsburg territories in the southern Low Countries and the north of modern France. Prior to this, he had been Governor of these territories since 1595.

Albert VII was the fifth son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and the Infanta Maria of Spain, daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella of Portugal. He was sent to the Spanish Court at the age of eleven, where his uncle Philip II looked after his education. Initially he was meant to pursue an ecclesiastical career. In 1577 he was appointed cardinal at the age of eighteen and was given the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme as his titular church. Philip II planned to make him archbishop of Toledo as soon as possible, but the current incumbent, Gaspar de Quiroga y Sandoval, lived much longer than expected. In the mean time Albert only took lower orders. He would never be ordained priest, nor bishop. His clerical upbringing did however have a lasting influence on his lifestyle.

After the annexation of Portugal, Albert became the first viceroy of the kingdom and its overseas empire in 1583. He was likewise appointed Papal Legate and Grand Inquisitor for Portugal. As viceroy of Portugal, he took part in the organization of the Great Armada of 1588 and beat off an English counter-attack on Lisbon in 1589. In 1593 Philip II recalled him to Madrid, where he would take a leading role in the government of the Spanish Monarchy.

More about the use of Holy Water Fonts:

In Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism, Oriental Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and some other churches, holy water is water which has been sanctified by a priest or bishop for the purpose of baptism or for the blessing of persons, places, or things.

Holy water is water that has been blessed and set apart for Baptism. It is also used as a sacramental apart from use in the baptismal ceremony. Holy water is kept in the font, the church furnishing used for baptisms, which is typically located at the entrance to the church (or sometimes in a separate room or building called a baptistery); its location at the entrance serves as a reminder of the centrality of baptism as the primary rite of initiation into the Christian faith. Smaller vessels, called stoups, are usually placed at the entrances of the church. As a reminder of baptism, Catholics dip their fingers in the holy water and make the sign of the cross when entering the church. The liturgy may begin on Sundays with the Rite of Blessing and Sprinkling Holy Water, in which holy water is sprinkled upon the congregation; this is called aspersion, from the Latin, to sprinkle. This ceremony dates back to the ninth century. An aspergill or aspergillum is a brush or branch used to sprinkle the water. An aspersorium is the vessel which holds the holy water and into which the aspergillum is dipped, though elaborate Ottonian examples are known as situlae. Salt may be added to the water "where it is customary."

For more on sacramentals, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church.^[1]

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