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[Tax-chick]

Very informative.

[Enosh]

"Titulus Crucis, a Crucifixion nail, relic of the True Cross, two thorns from the Crown of Thorns, the greater part of the sponge used to give Christ vinegar..."

Wow! Is there any dried blood left anywhere on them?

[Swordmaker]

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[Military family member]

When they Sisters of Providence exumed St. Mother Theodore Guerin prior to her beatification in 1992, they discovered that her brain was completely intact. Given that the brain is mostly water, it tends to be one of the first organs to decay.

St. Mother Guerin's body is located in the Church of Immaculate Conception, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. Next to it are visable relics—her fingers.

[Saundra Duffy]

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[Alex Murphy]

Some additional discussions on the subject of relics:

ARE THESE THE REAL RELICS OF EASTER?
'Relics, they always are' : For all believers, there are objects revered as sacred

[LantzALot]

Some years back, my wife and I happened into a small church in Tolosa, Spain. At the very entry was a glass case containing an incorrupt body in Bishop's garb. Later, I learned that the town of San Luis Obispo, CA was actually "San Luis, Obispo De Tolosa."

You don't mention Tolosa in your list. Do you know if it was San Luis we saw, or who else it might have been?

[topher]

Saint Katherine Drexel’s tomb is in NE Philadelphia, PA.

[eastsider]

Though not a shrine in honor of canonized Saints, also of note in the Czech Republic is "Sedlec Ossuary" ("Kostnice")...

The man who created the monstrance of bones (see below) was a man of great faith.

I am the bread of life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. (John 6:48-51)

[Salvation]

Bumping this thread up along with the other thread on discussion of relics.

[Gamecock]

Hmmm, let me see here....

I’ve seen the following:

Relic: The Three Magi
Where: Discovered in Persia, brought to Constantinople by St. Helena, transferred to Milan in the fifth century and then to the Cathedral of Cologne, Germany in A.D. 1163, where they’ve been ever since.

Relic: Christ’s Robe
Where: Cathedral of St. Peter, Trier, Germany. The “tunica Christi” was brought to Trier by St. Helena.

Oh well, only two.

[Coleus]

“Elisha died and was buried. At the time, bands of Moabites used to raid the land each year. Once some people were burying a man, when suddenly they spied such a raiding band. So they cast the dead man into the grave of Elisha, and everyone went off. But when the man came in contact with the bones of Elisha, he came back to life and rose to his feet.”
-2 Kings 13:20-21

“For Him [Christ] being the Son of God, we adore, but the martyrs as disciples and imitators of the Lord we cherish as they deserve for their matchless affection towards their own King and Teacher. May it be our lot also to be found partakers and fellow-disciples with them......And so we afterwards took up his [Polycarp’s] bones which are more valuable than precious stones and finer than refined gold, and laid them in a suitable place; where the Lord will permit us to gather ourselves together, as we are able, in gladness and joy, and to celebrate the birth-day of his martyrdom for the commemoration of those that have already fought in the contest, and for the training and preparation of those that shall do so hereafter.”

—Epistle of Ignatius of Antioch to the Smyrnaeans, on the martyrdom of Polycarp