Really? Great choice! I saw his relic (bone) one time. I was really moved.
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Yes. Shame on me, but I think I saw his resting place in Rome (during honeymoon); and with it being such a whirlwind trip, I don't remember it. I will have to sort through my pictures.
But yes, it is moving to be with such relics: a manifestation that the saints are still with us, though not just in their relics but in spirit as they pray for us even now. We need the help of our big brothers and big sisters.
And with thousands of tombs and relics and chapels in Rome it’s certainly hard to keep it all straight!
Indeed relics are powerful. It’s part of that incarnational part of our faith that is so important. We aren’t just souls with bodies that don’t matter. We are soul/bodies, our bodies are so important that they will rise again after death. So seeing a relic is truly being with that saint.
You are speaking my language, brother. Good way to look at it.
Not long ago my wife and I went to La Crosse, WI, for mass with Fr. Carlos Martins, who brought with him a relic of St. Jude's arm. It was an experience.
All holy men and women, pay for us.
