Relics specialist, Sean Pilcher, responds to requests from parishes, religious orders and individuals from around the world to authenticate relics, return them to places of honor, and ensure their reverential treatment.
If one was to line up some rockstar saints loved by the youth, certainly the founder of World Youth Day, St. John Paul II, and vivid Italian hiker Pier Giorgio Frassati would be first in the line.
Their relics were available for veneration
Every Catholic church houses God present in the Eucharist. At the same time, many of them also hold relics or remains of the saints — holy men and women now in heaven after dedicating their lives to God. Some churches in the
In early March, a relic of Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, made a special pilgrimage through Texas. The relic — a bone fragment — originally arrived in Texas as part of a special relic pilgrimage to the Dioceses
A relic of the founder of the Knights – a bone fragment -- made a pilgrimage March 5-9 through three Texas dioceses -- Fort Worth, San Angelo and Lubbock, stopping at five Catholic churches, including two cathedrals, Sacred Heart in San Angelo
A beatified teenager's passionate love of the Eucharist was put on display for a group of New Jersey Catholic school students as U.S. Catholics begin a three-year eucharistic revival.
Students of St. Dominic School in Brick, sang and prayed April 28, the day
Hundreds -- including many Venezuelans living in the United States -- came to this Fort Lauderdale suburb May 1 to greet the cardinal from Caracas, Venezuela, and to see relics of Blessed José Gregorio Hernández, known affectionately as the "doctor of the
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi, Italy, presented New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan with a first-class relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis for the U.S. Catholic Church's three-year National Eucharistic Revival that begins June 19, the feast of Corpus Christi, and culminates with
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi, Italy, brought a first-class relic of Blessed Carlos Acutis to a Catholic high school on Long Island April 4 as he began a five-day tour with the relic.
Blessed Acutis, an Italian teen who died of leukemia in
The relics of St. Bernadette, the Marian visionary of Lourdes, France, will tour the United States for the first time.
The visit will begin in South Florida at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Miami, with a morning welcome Mass April 7. The