Among the saint relics on display at St. Rita of Cascia Church in Chicago Lawn are remains from St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas Aquinas. They are first-class ...

St. Jude is known as the apostle of the impossible. A first-class relic is a physical object directly associated with a saint or Jesus. It is usually a part of a saint’s body, such as a bone ...

Both events are open to the public. Both are first-class relics, meaning the remains of a saint's body. The relics of St. Faustina, a Polish nun and visionary who died in 1938, are bone fragments ...

He will formally be declared a saint at a Mass in front of the Vatican ... but I don’t think I’d ever want to own a first-class relic. It just would feel a bit weird to me.” ...

In a solemn three-hour ceremonial, a tiny reliquary (½ by 1½ by 2½ in.) was sealed into the new high altar of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan last Saturday. In the reliquary were bone ...

He will formally be declared a saint at a Mass in front of the Vatican ... but I don’t think I’d ever want to own a first-class relic. It just would feel a bit weird to me.” ...