Pendant Reliquary Cross

This gold enamel pearl ruby Pendant Reliquary Cross was made by either the Spanish or the English in c.1510 A paper packet with the words 'ex sanguine' it means optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation sealed within the cross indicates that it may have contained a relic of St Thomas a Beckett who was killed in his catherdal in Canterbury in 1170. They symbolise my religion there very beautiful they catches your eye. The pearls are quite colourful there too different crosses one moredecorative than the other.