"Pope Francis and many people attending the canonization Mass in St Peter’s Square were alive when St Paul VI and St Oscar Romero
were alive, but the new saints’ relics and those of five other people canonized on October 14 were still present at the Mass as reminders that the saints were flesh-and-blood people who lived holy lives.
The very formal relics, present in reliquaries with a red-wax seal, were set at the feet of a statue of Mary during the Mass.
Most were what the Church traditionally described as “first-class” relics: a piece of the actual physical remains of the saint, often bone fragments.
The formal reliquary for Paul VI was a glass vase containing the blood-specked undershirt he was wearing in November 1970 when a Bolivian artist stabbed him at the Manila airport."
CatholicHerald
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exodus 20:3
The very formal relics, present in reliquaries with a red-wax seal, were set at the feet of a statue of Mary during the Mass.
Most were what the Church traditionally described as “first-class” relics: a piece of the actual physical remains of the saint, often bone fragments.
The formal reliquary for Paul VI was a glass vase containing the blood-specked undershirt he was wearing in November 1970 when a Bolivian artist stabbed him at the Manila airport."
CatholicHerald
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exodus 20:3
