The tour also includes relics from the Nativity, such as a piece of the Blessed Mother’s veil, a piece of Christ’s crib, and parts of the bones of the three Wise Men. The reliquary and skull of Saint ...
Find today’s readings here. We know the visual: A Roman centurion stabs the crucified Christ in the side to confirm that he is dead, causing blood and water to pour forth from his wound. I have always ...
Standing before the casket containing the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and the tomb of St. Catherine of Siena in Rome, Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney told a packed basilica of ...
After her pilgrimage to the Holy Land, St. Helena brought fragments of the True Cross, the cross on which Jesus died. A fragment on the True Cross on which Jesus was condemned to death. (photo: Daniel ...
This Christmas, a Morton Grove church is celebrating the arrival of two Catholic holy relics, including one from St. Luke, a key figure in Christianity and author of a gospel that tells the story of ...
MONTCLAIR, N.J. (PIX11) — It could be a once-in-a-lifetime chance for you to witness a relic tied to Jesus Christ. “It’s helping preserve a 2,000-year-old tradition,” said Joseph Santoro of the ...
Amy Surak, the archivist at Manhattan University in New York, oversees a collection of holy relics that have been accumulated by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a lay order of the Catholic ...
Over 45,000 people, including visitors from the Americas, lined the streets and walked in procession Thursday for the Holy Blood Procession in Bruges, Belgium, which has taken place annually on ...