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

The Relic Project

16 Jun 2026
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Relic Tour June 19 - 21: Connell, Basin City, Eltopia

The number 1,000 with celebratory starts in the background. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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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 of gold and red (miter and vestment) displayed on silver bust of San Gennaro in Naples, Italy Cathedral. The miter was stolen and recovered. Image Credit: Laura Ruberto.

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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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Pope Leo in Lombardy, near Milan. Image credit: Graphic generated by Gemini AI.

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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