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Relic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shrine of the Holy Relics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shrine of the Holy Relics in Maria Stein, Ohio is the second largest collection of relics in the United States. A relic includes body parts (usually bones) from saints or an object that belonged...
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Fragments of a cassock worn by Pope John Paul II are being offered for sale to the faithful, causing concern in the Vatican over the resurgence in the veneration of relics.
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Holy relics; (newsphoto); Updated: 2004-05-26 08:50 ... A ceremony is held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre to welcome the arrival of the Buddha finger bone, May 25, 2004. Also called Buddha's "sarira", the finger bone is considered one of the world's great sacred relics.
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Maria Stein Center, National Marian Shrine Of The Holy Relics, Maria Stein Heritage Museum, Sisters of the Most Precious Blood Original Motherhouse, CPPS, Roman Catholic Shrines, Catholic Mass Times Ohio, Land of the Cross Tipped Churches, German Catholic, Maria Anna Probst Brunner, Father Francis DeSales Brunner,
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Commerce in saints' bits and pieces--long forbidden by the Catholic Church--is thriving. ... Trade in relics arose in the Middle Ages, when Catholic pilgrims returned home from the Holy Land with tokens of the burial places of martyrs or of the martyrs themselves. These relics were believed capable of working miracles.
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