A new relic will be sent this month

[Mariablessed]

This month a new relic will be sent to the church and is it right to cut off the arm of a incorrupted body of a saint?
I am pretty sure there doing is wrong right? They could have sent the full body right?

 

[Don_Ruggero]

This month a new relic will be sent to the church and is it right to cut off the arm of a incorrupted body of a saint?

I am pretty sure there doing is wrong right? They could have sent the full body right?

Your question needs clarification. Are you talking about a relic for your parish church? Or where, exactly?

It is not normal, today, for a parish church to receive a relic as large as an arm but rather something decidedly smaller.

Blesseds and Saints with bodies that are incorrupt are treated differently when it comes to extraction of relics in the process of their exhumation and recognition as part of beatification and canonisation.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

My guess is she’s talking about St. Francis Xavier’s arm which is on tour through Canada right now.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/why-is-st-francis-xaviers-arm-flying-across-canada-73850

To answer the question, the arm is only partially incorrupt. It is mostly bones. And no, you cannot fly the full body of a saint around on tour. If you read the article, it is difficult enough to just be taking the small part, the arm, around on a plane. You cannot simply put a saint’s body into the cargo bin, it would need to be brought into the cabin. Furthermore, relics are very precious, and if you were taking one around for veneration you would just take a small part, not the whole body, in case it were somehow accidentally destroyed in an accident or lost or stolen - the rest of the saint’s relics would still be available elsewhere.

There is nothing unusual or wrong about sending some arm bones on tour. I doubt they had to cut them off either given that like I said it is mostly skeleton and they probably just lifted them off and will set them back with the body when the tour is done.

 

[Maximilian75]

Saint Maria Goretti’s body made a tour around the US last year…

 

[Tis_Bearself]

That’s interesting. I wonder why they would send her whole body. I was unaware of the tour.

Edited to add, actually her arm is in another church separate from the rest of her remains, so I am presuming the arm didn’t go on tour. If so then they did hold something back.

 

[CatholicSpirit]

I believe her is a him, and it seems like it relates to quantity of baptisms performed by one holy person.