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Now Open to Pilgrims - Our Lady of Lourdes Relic Shrine

Discover Our Lady of Lourdes Relic Shrine in Spokane Valley. Explore more than 50 sacred relics and plan your pilgrimage to grow closer to Jesus.

Grand Opening: Our Lady of Lourdes Relic Shrine

Witness a ONCE-IN-A-LIFE-TIME event in the history of the Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest You are invited to join us for the Feast of Holy relics and the grand opening of the largest relic shrine in the pacific northwest. More than 100 relics. One historic

In Montpellier, relics of saint Roch on special display for Heritage Days

Every third week-end of September, in France, is Heritage Days. A very popular event where people can visit places never open to the public, where there are guides who explain the history of the monuments, special displays and unique openings.  In Saint Roch sanctuary in Montpellier, some relics were

Historic Once-in-a-Lifetime Event! The Largest Shrine of Relics in the Pacific Northwest

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Help Send The Relic Project to Rome!

Two handmade plushies. Two winners. One mission worth supporting. We’ve been invited to Rome for the International KAIROS Youth Congress—and you can help us get there! Purchase a $2 raffle ticket at any All Saints Relic Tour stop for a chance to win a handmade Our Lady of

All Saints Relic Tour: Over 50 Relics Coming to Yakima and Seattle

October 26–November 1, 2026 This All Saints season, come a little closer to the saints. Beginning October 26, The Relic Project will bring over 50 relics of the saints to Catholic communities across the Yakima and Seattle areas, offering an opportunity to learn, pray, and prepare for All Saints

Making Room for the Saints: An Unexpected Blessing at Bl. Fulton Sheen’s Beatification

By Anthony Di Mauro The Relic Project had no booth reserved for Fulton Sheen’s beatification. We planned simply to attend, pray, and celebrate. The relics of the saints were going to stay at the hotel. Then a phone call about a backpack led to an invitation to bring the

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Relics Explained: Your Questions About The Relic Project and the Saints

A Note from the Founder The recent attention surrounding the relics of Blessed Fulton J. Sheen has introduced many people to the Church’s tradition of venerating relics. I’m grateful to see this conversation growing, and I hope the questions below help you understand both the tradition and the

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Join Us for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi in Burien

This Sunday, October 4, The Relic Project will join St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Burien, Washington, for its feast day celebration. We are honored to bring several relics for veneration, including relics of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Carlo Acutis. St. Francis gave his life to following Christ

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Bringing the Saints to Fulton Sheen’s Beatification Week

The Relic Project is honored to be traveling to St. Louis and Peoria for three historic events celebrating the life, witness, and beatification of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Accompanied by three volunteers, we will bring more than 50 relics of the saints to St. Louis, joining Catholics from across

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Mary Magdalen, patron saint of Provence and one of the first who preached the Gospel in France

The feast of Mary Magdalen in July with the procession of the relics.

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The Relic Project Joins the Journey to Jubilee 2033

We are honored to share an important new chapter in the mission of The Relic Project. From September 3–6, 2026, our founder, Anthony Di Mauro, will travel to the Augustine Institute in St. Louis for the Jubilee33 Collaborator Summit. He will join bishops, confraternities, shrines, religious communities, movements, and

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Saved by the Relics: How Preserving Relics Preserved a Parish

The unassuming exterior of St. John Gualbert Church holds an interior treasure, literally alongside the treasure of our Eucharistic Lord, secured in a side altar. That is because this small church, located in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga, claims to house the second-largest collection of relics in the United

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See What Your Support Has Made Possible

Dear Friends of The Relic Project, Your generosity is helping us bring the saints—and, through them, Jesus Christ—to more people. Support received through our home, parish, and school visits has allowed us to invest in resources that strengthen and expand our ministry. Because of you, we have been

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The Relic Project Catalogues Its 1000th Relic…and Counting! Join Us!

The Relic Project reached a monumental milestone on July 14, 2026 —1,000 relics have now been catalogued! The exciting 1,000th entry was a simple theca housing a second-class relic of the Blessed Virgin Mary (part of her veil) and a first-class relic of her father, St.

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Relics Making News: San Gennaro Relic Theft Swiftly Thwarted

A City and Its Saint Naples, Italy has a reputation of being beautiful (think Naples Bay, churches, Mount Vesuvius), chaotic (think crowds, red tape, and stretched public services), and vibrant (think festival culture, street life, and pizza). Neapolitans are also deeply religious and devoted to San Gennaro, their fairly obscure

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Relics Making News: Pope Venerates Relics of St. Augustine and Mother Cabrini

Pope Leo XIV visited Pavia and Sant’Angelo Lodigiano in the Italian region of Lombardy on June 20, 2026, to venerate the relics of St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, respectively. Veneration (honoring) is fully Biblical (2 Kings 13:21 and Acts 19:12) and traditional, while

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Relics Making News: America’s 250th Birthday Saint Extravaganza in Wisconsin

Spiritual Champions in Champion, Wisconsin If you live or have traveled in the United States, you may have heard of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion Shrine in Champion, Wisconsin. It stands out as the “first and only approved Marian apparition site in the U.S.” My husband

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Relics on the Move: Jerusalem Treasure Trove Temporarily in Texas

If You Bring Them, They Will Come The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, is currently hosting the exhibition, “The Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem.” Due to its popularity, it was extended for two weeks and now goes through July 12, 2026.  The exhibit features

Relic Tour June 19 - 21: Connell, Basin City, Eltopia

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Relics on the Move: St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Sacred Heart Consecration

“June is bustin’ out all over,” as the old musical lyrics effused, and for Catholics in the United States, this June is bursting with graces. First, June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Second, the United States is being consecrated to His Sacred Heart on June 11th.

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Join Us at the Sacred Heart National Festival with 40+ Relics

We are excited to announce that The Relic Project will be participating in the One Nation Under the Sacred Heart National Festival, taking place June 11–14, 2026, at the Kentucky Holy Land in Springfield, Kentucky. June 11–14, 2026 Kentucky Holy Land Springfield, Kentucky This unique event will bring

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"Can I Bless My Friend with Santa Claus?" — Students Encounter the Saints

A little boy came up to me and asked if he could pray and bless his best friend with the 1st class relic of Santa. When you bring over 70 saints to Seattle, one of the most unchurched and PAGAN regions in the United States, and you witness thousands of

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Featured Relic: St. Rita of Cascia

Grace Builds on Nature St. Rita of Cascia was born Margherita—“Pearl”—and her life was shaped layer after layer through suffering: a difficult marriage, the murder of her husband, the death of her two sons, rejection by the convent, and the partial stigmata she bore for years. Just as

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Relics Making News: St. Zdîslava of Czechia

Holy Theft from Ages Past Relic theft has a surprisingly deep and complex history in Catholicism, one that might surprise those familiar with the veneration of saints’ remains but less acquainted with their occasional misadventures. In the Middle Ages, what scholars call furta sacra (“holy theft”) was sometimes reframed not