Tag: Relics

A major relic of St Carlo Acutis is travelling through Australian cities and country towns, inspiring young people, parishioners and priests to renew their love for Jesus in the Eucharist.

Thousands of Sydneysiders descended on St Mary’s Cathedral to seize their opportunity to venerate and witness the revered relics of St Carlo Acutis, which began their Australian tour on 25 June.

Pope Leo XIV visited the northern Italian hometown of St Frances Xavier Cabrini 20 June, venerating a relic of her heart and highlighting the enduring relevance of her mission to migrants.

Catholics from around Sydney packed into St Mary’s Cathedral on Friday 5 June as the relics of St Anthony of Padua visited Australia, offering the faithful a rare opportunity to pray in the presence of the Franciscan saint.

The Sydney Archdiocese will host a relic of the recently-canonised St Carlo Acutis with a welcome Mass later this month and a tour of Greater Sydney in October.  

You have written about the veil in the Vatican which is supposed to be the one with which Veronica wiped the face of Jesus, but you mentioned another one, in Manoppello, which also might be the one used by Veronica. What can you tell me about it?

Greater Sydney will host first class relics of the famous Franciscan friar St Anthony of Padua for three days as they make their way around Australia to Adelaide.

For the first time in 800 years, the mortal remains of St Francis of Assisi are on extended public display.

Catholics (and before that, ancient Jews) have always cherished and venerated physical relics of their holy dead, even – or especially – when the rest of the world found that practice creepy or dangerous or just kind of gross.

Along one of Rome's busiest streets, Via del Corso, traffic moves slowly as hundreds of pilgrims crisscross traffic on foot to get to their destination.

Catholics across the US will have a rare chance to venerate one of the church's most beloved saints this fall.

A habit worn by St Pio of Pietrelcina and other rare relics are going to the US, taken by Capuchin friars from the very monastery that was home to the beloved saint known as Padre Pio.