An internationally known specialist in the identification, restoration and authentication of Catholic relics works from his home in Minneapolis to authenticate relics, return them to places of honor and ensure their reverential treatment.
Specialist researches, authenticates, restores relics for parishes, religious orders around world
Knights of Columbus pilgrimage of Blessed McGivney relic visits three Texas dioceses
Each pilgrimage stop offered an opportunity for veneration of the relic, followed by Mass.
Padre Pio relics attract crowds from around Minnesota
People waited in lines that stretched down the main aisle of the church and out the door to venerate the relics of St. Padre Pio at St. Mary’s Cathedral Sept. 25.
Why do Catholics venerate relics?
The veneration of relics is a fundamentally biblical practice; it is not some sort of innovation in the centuries after Christ. On the contrary, as Scripture reveals, the veneration of relics was widely practiced, in one form or another, by ancient Jews as well.