3737709 Textile fragment from the Dalmatic of San Valerius (silk, gilt animal substrate around a silk core) by Spanish School, (13th century); 7.6x12.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: This brocaded textile was originally applied to a dalmatic of Andalusian manufacture. It belongs to a collection of vestments attributed to the cult of Saint Valerius, who was the bishop of Saragossa from 290 until 315. During the eleventh century his body was transferred to the Cathedral of San Vicente de Roda de Isabena in Lerida (Catalonia), from where relics were dispatched to other churches. The textiles were made to venerate the saint, with the dalmatic worn on the occasion of his feast day. ); Spanish, out of copyright.