The relics of two saints, St. M. Faustina Kowalska and St. Gianna Beretta Molla, will be installed in two separate, solemn celebrations in April at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. 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 that Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, founder of the shrine and prefect the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura at the Vatican, brought back from Rome.
The relics of St. Gianna, who died in 1962 in Italy, are three strands of hair. “We’re very, very honored to have that here. It’s through the graciousness of the family,” said Sister Christa Marie, FSGM, executive director of the shrine.
Sister Christa Marie said she had asked the saint’s son, Pierluigi, whether the family might relinquish a relic after he spoke at the shrine last July.
The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe is home to hundreds of relics, Sister Christa Marie said, but only the first-class relics of the six saints honored in the side aisles of the Shrine Church will be permanently displayed behind glass for public veneration. Already installed are bone fragments of St. Therese of Lisieux and St. Maria Goretti.
Read the whole article which is really well done at La Crosse Tribune
Fr Z picked up on this too(and a CNA article)
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