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Below, discover relics of saints and stones of holy sites, which you can find at Pilgrim Center of Hope. Save this link so you can enjoy all the treasures offered here!

What are relics? Where do they come from? Why do Christians venerate them? How is this Scriptural?

Pamphlet contains explanation about relic classification (First Class, Second Class, etc.) and Latin indications (ex ossibus, ex indumentis, etc.).

Reliquary

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  • Home of Elizabeth & Zechariah, site of Mary’s Visitation, Ein Karem, Jerusalem area Stone (Red Seal: Franciscan Seal of Authenticity)

  • Christ’s Birthplace
    Bethlehem
    Stone (Red Seal: Franciscan Seal of Authenticity)

  • Site where Jesus spent his hour of Agony, Gethsemane, Jerusalem Stone (Red Seal is the Franciscan Seal of Authenticity)

  • Calvary, Holy Sepulcher Church, Jerusalem Stone (Red Seal is the Franciscan Seal of Authenticity)

  • The Cross of Jesus

    Cloth touched to wood of the True Cross of Christ
    Shrine of the True Cross, Dickinson, TX

  • (In Chapel) Stone from Monte Sant'Angelo where he appeared in late 5th century

  • St. Lucia
    283-304; Syracuse (Italy). Early Christian Martyr.
    First Class (ex ossibus)

  • St. Philomena
    St. Philomena

    St. Philomena of Rome 291-304; Greece & Rome. Early Christian Martyr. Second class (ex indumentis)

  • St. Benedetto da Norcia
    480-547; Italy. Confessor. Founder, Order of St. Benedict.
    Second Class (ex indumentis)

  • St. Anselm
    St. Anselm

    St. Anselm of Canterbury
    1093-1109; England. Benedictine, Bishop. Doctor of the Church.
    First Class (ex ossibus)

  • St. Domingo Félix de Guzmán
    1170-1221; Spain. Founder, Order of Preachers.
    First Class (ex ossibus)

  • St. Fernando Martins de Bulhões, Antônio de Pádua 1195-1231; Portugal. Confessor. Franciscan Friar. Doctor of the Church. First Class (ex ossibus) Second Class (ex indumentis – clothing)

  • St. Thomas Aquinas
    St. Thomas Aquinas

    St. Tommaso d'Aquino
    1225-1274; Italy. Confessor. Dominican Friar. Doctor of the Church.
    First Class (ex ossibus)

  • St. Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa
    1347-1380; Italy. Lay Dominican. Doctor of the Church.
    First Class (ex ossibus)

  • St. Margherita Lotti | Rita of Cascia
    1381-1457; Italy. Widow, Augustinian Nun.
    Second Class (ex indumentis – clothing)

  • St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney | John Vianney
    1786-1859; France. Confessor. Parish Priest. Patron Saint of Priests.
    First Class (ex carne)

  • St. Gioann Melchior Bòsch | Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco
    1815-1888; Italy. Confessor. Founder, Salesians. Patron Saint of Youth.
    First Class (ex ossibus)

  • St. Enrique de Ossó i Cervelló | Henry De Osso
    1840-1896; Spain. Confessor. Founder, Society of St. Teresa of Jesus.
    First Class (ex ossibus)

  • St. Marie Bernarde Soubirous
    1844-1879; France. Marian Visionary of Lourdes.
    Second Class (ex indumentis – religious habit)

  • St. القديسة مريم بواردي, Mariam Baouardy 1846-1878, Palestine. Carmelite Nun. First Class (ex sanguinis – from her stigmata) Second Class (ex indumentis)

  • St. Maria Francesca Cabrini 1850-1917; USA. Founder, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Second Class (ex indumentis – religious habit)

  • St. Catherine Marie Drexel, Katharine Mary Drexel
    1858-1955; USA. Founder, Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
    Second Class (ex indumentis – religious habit)

  • St. Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin, Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face 1873-1897; France. Carmelite Nun. Doctor of the Church. Patron Saint of Missionaries.
    First Class (ex ossibus) Second Class (ex locii – flowers from her Alençon home)

  • Bl. Maria Assunta Pallotta
    Bl. Maria Assunta Pallotta

    Bl. Maria Assunta Pallotta
    1878-1905; Italy, China. Franciscan Missionary of Mary.
    Second Class (ex indumentis – religious habit)

  • St. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
    1881-1963; Italy. Pope.
    Third Class (card with prayer)

  • St. Francesco Forgione, Pio of Pietrelcina
    1887-1968; Italy. Confessor. Capuchin Franciscan.

  • St. Maria Teresa Goretti
    1890-1902; Italy. Virgin, Martyr.
    First Class (ex ossibus)

  • Bl. José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez
    1891-1927; Mexico. Jesuit, Confessor, Martyr.
    Second Class (ex arca sepulcrali – piece of his casket)

  • St. Karol Józef Wojtyła
    1920-2005; Poland. Pope.
    Second Class (ex indumentis – papal cassock)

  • 1991-2006; England & Italy. Lay student. Second class (Ex linteo recognitionis – Piece of his clothing)

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