7 Weird and Wonderful Catholic Relics
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Ever seen some of these in person?
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6 Relics You Need to Visit at the Cathedral in Downtown L.A.
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Want to know which 6 other relics you’re missing by skipping a trip to the cathedral? Just take a look at this list.
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Holy Stairs in Rome Uncovered for Pilgrims to Climb
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VATICAN CITY – For more than three hundred years, thick wooden planks covered the marble Holy Stairs. But those planks didn’t stop millions of pilgrims from climbing the hard stairs on their knees while meditating on the passion and death of Christ. But this year, pilgrims will be able to touch and climb the bare
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7 True Facts About the REAL Chair of St. Peter
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Here are some facts on the real, physical chair which is located inside the Vatican.
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The Stories of These Relics of the Crucifixion Will Blow You Away
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Often in pop culture, medieval Catholics are portrayed as boldly (maybe blindly) going off to fight in the Crusades and coming back from the Holy Land with relics of the Crucifixion of Christ. But the actual stories of the relics of the Crucifixion and how they were discovered are infinitely more fascinating. J. Charles Wall
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Science Works to Confirm a Relic of Saint Francis of Assisi
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ITALY – Almost 800 years ago, a group of monks were snowbound and starving inside the Friary of Folloni near Montella in Italy. Legend says that Saint Francis of Assisi, who was in France at the time, sent the sack of bread to the monks, delivered by the hands of angels. The cloth bag filled with French
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You Won’t Believe the Papal Relics We Have!
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What are relics? Relics are any body part (sometimes the entire body), blood, possession, piece of clothing, or pieces of cloth touched to the remains of a saint and popes are those cool dudes who take their role as servant of the whole Church from St. Peter and Christ’s edict to him. There’s two “classes” of
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6 Super Cool Chairs the Popes Have Used
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Popes have to sit in a lot of different chairs and in different places. Here are 6 of the coolest papal chairs (and some are relics, too!) we could find. 1. Papal Throne This is the chair the current pope usually sits on while in the Vatican and is located in the apse of
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