Sunday, April 22, 2018

More than 250 relics of Catholic saints are being given away in Canada

More than 250 relics of Catholic saints are being given away in Canada:

https://aleteia.org/2018/04/09/more-than-250-relics-of-catholic-saints-are-being-given-away-in-canada 

 Over the past ten years, though, Debra Majer of the Catholic Diocese of London, Ontario has had a somewhat unusual job – finding homes for the more than 250 remains of saints that have been warehoused in her basement office.

Each relic is contained in the theca, a small metal vessel, and can be seen through a window. The vessels are sealed with wax which matches the seal of a cardinal on an accompanying documents. If a red thread that crosses the back of the relic is broken, that means that relic’s authenticity has been compromised.

Saint Anthony Padua's Relics in Aiken South Carolina

Saint Anthony Padua's Relics can be venerated in Aiken, South Carolina in April, 2018:

https://www.aikenstandard.com/news/holy-relics-of-st-anthony-of-padua-can-be-seen/article_bae82bee-3433-11e8-a648-a305d371d2e2.html

4 Shrines for Saints Relics in the United States

4 Shrines for Saints Relics in the United States:

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimgraves/4-shrines-for-saints-relics-in-the-u.s

The Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics (www.mariasteinshrine.org) in Maria Stein, Ohio, is home to 1,100 relics in 970 reliquaries representing 900 saints. It is one of the largest collections of its kind in the world. It is an active collection, as the shrine regularly makes requests for new relics from the Vatican. It is located in the Diocese of Cincinnati.

St. Martin of Tours Church (website) in Louisville, Kentucky is home to the skeletal remains of Saints Magnus and Bonosa who were martyred in the third or fourth century, and had been kept in glass sarcophagi in the church’s two wooden side altars since 1902.

St. Anthony’s Chapel in Pittsburg (www.saintanthonyschapel.org) boasts an even larger collection of 5,000 relics.

St. John Cantius Church in Chicago (www.cantius.org) is another historic church that is home to about 1,800 relics.