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Relics

7680 Joe Newton St, San Antonio, TX 78251

All are welcome to make a pilgrimage to Pilgrim Center of Hope. See below for information about relics of saints and stones of holy sites you can find at the Center.

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

  • The Visitation
    The Visitation

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

  • The Nativity of Jesus
    The Nativity of Jesus

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

  • The Agony of Jesus
    The Agony of Jesus

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

  • The Crucifixion of Jesus
    The Crucifixion of Jesus

    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

  • St. Lucy
    St. Lucy

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

  • St. Benedict
    St. Benedict

    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. Dominic
    St. Dominic

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

  • St. Anthony de Padua
    St. Anthony de Padua

    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. Catherine of Siena
    St. Catherine of Siena

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

  • St. Rita
    St. Rita

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

  • St. John Vianney
    St. John Vianney

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

  • St. Henry de Osso
    St. Henry de Osso

    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. Bernadette
    St. Bernadette

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

  • St. Mary of Jesus Crucified
    St. Mary of Jesus Crucified

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

  • St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
    St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

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

  • St. Katherine Drexel
    St. Katherine Drexel

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

  • St. Thérèse
    St. Thérèse

    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)

  • Pope St. John XXIII
    Pope St. John XXIII

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

  • St. Padre Pio
    St. Padre Pio

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

  • St. Maria Goretti
    St. Maria Goretti

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

  • Bl. Miguel Pro
    Bl. Miguel Pro

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

  • Pope St. John Paul II
    Pope St. John Paul II

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

Gethsemane Chapel

Gethsemane Chapel is named for the Garden of Gethsemane, where our founders discerned God’s call for their lives. This humble chapel is home to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

  • Stations of the Cross line the walls containing small fragments of each Station in Jerusalem, along the Via Dolorosa where Christ carried the Cross.  
  • On the wall to the left-hand side is a mounted piece of the rock of Calvary, where Jesus was crucified. This has been certified by the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land.
  • To the righthand side - Stone from Monte Sant'Angelo, where the Archangel Michael appeared during times of tribulation.

Sacred art as an aid to your prayer, reflection, and meditation is also housed in this chapel.

Seats 35 persons. Gethsemane Chapel is available for personal prayer during regular business hours (9am-5pm).

7680 Joe Newton St, San Antonio, TX 78251

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