Vatican Hosts Veneration of Relics of 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya on First Feast Day
The Coptic Orthodox Church declared the 21 Coptic Christians as martyr saints within only a week of their murder in 2015 along the Libyan coast.
The Coptic Orthodox Church declared the 21 Coptic Christians as martyr saints within only a week of their murder in 2015 along the Libyan coast.
Holy remains will be venerated at more than 30 churches and shrines, including EWTN, through August.
COMMENTARY: The more the cloth is investigated, the more the evidence accumulates for its authenticity.
The silver- and gold-plated reliquary of St. John XXIII contains a small piece of his skin. The relic of St. John Paul II is a vial of his blood, set in a similar reliquary.
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