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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following a Mass on Nov. 29, 2024, at St. Dominic Church in Washington, a woman venerates major relics of St. Thomas Aquinas, including what is believed to be the skull of the saint placed in a ...

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 ...

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 ...