For centuries, the Catholic Church has preserved objects believed to be closely connected to saints, miracles, and sacred moments. These relics are not displayed as curiosities, but as physical links ...
Substantial collection includes key figure of Easter. Clockwise from left: Father Joseph Marquis holds a relic of St. Joseph; Father Mitch Pacwa offers a blessing with a reliquary holding a relic of ...
CEDAR RAPIDS - Like dozens of others, Marlene and Jerome Greiner of Cedar Rapids left St. Patrick's Catholic Church in tears Wednesday afternoon after visiting a reliquary containing a vial of the ...
Amy Surak, the archivist at Manhattan University in New York, oversees a collection of holy relics that have been accumulated ...
A splinter of the True Cross. A piece of Our Lady’s veil and St. Joseph’s cloak. Hundreds of relics of saints. More than 500 Catholics came to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Oratory in Montclair, New Jersey ...
PROVIDENCE – Providence College had an unusual visitor on Wednesday – the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas. Or, at least, one of two skulls that may have belonged to the celebrated Catholic theologian. The ...
A relic of the young French Carmelite nun — known in the Catholic Church as “The Little Flower” — is coming to Redlands. The faithful can see the relic of St. Thérèse of Lisieux at the El Carmelo ...
LONDON (RNS) — King Henry VIII and his iconoclast-in-chief, Thomas Cromwell, would be stunned: Nearly 500 years after the English Reformation, Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Protestant ...