A fragment on the True Cross on which Jesus was condemned to death / Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Aug 18, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
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Art detective Arthur Brand and the reliquary that turned up on his doorstep. / Credit: Arthur Brand
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 23, 2022 / 07:27 am (CNA).
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There have been some reports in the news lately about relics arriving on U.S. soil. On April 3, a relic of Blessed Carlos Acutis, the first millennial to be beatified, arrived in New York. The […]
Spread throughout the world, in cathedrals and chapels, are perhaps three dozen rough iron nails claiming to be the nails that pierced the flesh of Christ. With so many claimants, there’s a temptation to dismiss […]
A reliquary containing relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis at the Church of Sant’Angela Merici in Rome, Oct 11, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Rome Newsroom, Mar 18, 2022 / 06:35 am (CNA).
A relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis’ heart is coming to New York in the first week of April.
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi will personally take the first-class relic from Italy to New York City on April 3.
The relic is a fragment of Acutis’ pericardium, the membrane that surrounds and protects the heart. It will be present for the U.S. bishops’ National Eucharistic Revival campaign, of which the Italian Blessed is a patron.
In the Catholic Church, relics are physical objects that have a direct association with the saints. Veneration of relics is a Scripture-based tradition practiced in the Church throughout the centuries.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, will offer a Mass with the relic in the Church of St. Rita in the Bronx on April 7.
Acutis was a young Catholic from Italy with a passionate devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and an aptitude for computer programming.
He died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, offering his suffering for the pope and the Church.
Acutis became the first millennial to be beatified by the Catholic Church in October 2020. His tomb is located in the Shrine of the Renunciation, which is part of the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi.
Pope Francis has said that Blessed Carlo’s “witness shows today’s young people that true happiness is found by putting God in first place and serving Him in our brothers and sisters, especially the least.”
During his visit to the U.S. on April 3-8, Archbishop Sorrentino will offer a Mass with the relic for 2,400 high school students at Saint Anthony’s High School in South Huntington in the Diocese of Rockville Center.
The bishop of Assisi will also lead a holy hour for young people and adults at the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
“It is a joy for me to bring this relic from Assisi,” Sorrentino said in a March 18 press release from the Diocese of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino.
“My prayer is that the presence of the relic of Blessed Carlo will arouse a desire in our American brothers and sisters, especially young people, not to waste their lives, but to make them a masterpiece, like Carlo chose in our time and St. Francis before him,” he said.
The relic of the holy cloak of St. Joseph at the Basilica of St. Joseph al Trionfale in Rome. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Rome, Italy, Dec 7, 2021 / 03:10 am (CNA).
The holy cloak of St. Joseph, a unique relic of the foster father of Jesus, has travel… […]
An image of Blessed Paul Yun Ji-chung and 123 companions, who were beatified Aug. 16, 2014. / Prepatory Committee for the 2014 Papal Visit to Korea.
Rome Newsroom, Sep 1, 2021 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
The relics of three of Korea’s oldest Catholic mart… […]
The chapel of the Holy Chalice in the cathedral of Valencia. Credit: Diego Delso via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). / null
Valencia, Spain, Aug 24, 2021 / 19:19 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese of Valencia conserves the relic of the Holy Chalice, believed t… […]
St. Albert Chmielowski. / Public Domain.
Krakow, Poland, Jun 18, 2021 / 05:30 am (CNA).
A thief on Friday returned the relics of a 19th-century Polish saint who inspired St. John Paul II and apologized for taking them.St. Joseph’s Church in the … […]
The San Galgano reliquary, stolen in 1989. / Courtesy of the Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale in Palermo.
Rome, Italy, May 5, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
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