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see https://bccatholic.ca/content/how-st-francis-xavier-s-arm-brought-faith-healing-to-canada
I first encountered the arm in the lobby of a Holiday Inn in Winnipeg. Even hidden in its armored reliquary, behind a plexiglass box, wrapped in a rectangular canvas tote-case, the sense of the ancient and the sacred struck me viscerally. Without thinking, I began to pray.
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When I was asked to accompany a 465-year-old arm across Canada, various fears and questions flashed across my mind. What are people going to think about us promoting relics in the 21st century?
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Yet from the start there were indications that something powerful was happening.
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One man, who spent 12 hours ushering people to the relic, left at the end of the day with tears rolling down his cheeks. He told us it had been the most important day of his life. There were many others like him.
I first encountered the arm in the lobby of a Holiday Inn in Winnipeg. Even hidden in its armored reliquary, behind a plexiglass box, wrapped in a rectangular canvas tote-case, the sense of the ancient and the sacred struck me viscerally. Without thinking, I began to pray.
…
When I was asked to accompany a 465-year-old arm across Canada, various fears and questions flashed across my mind. What are people going to think about us promoting relics in the 21st century?
…
Yet from the start there were indications that something powerful was happening.
…
One man, who spent 12 hours ushering people to the relic, left at the end of the day with tears rolling down his cheeks. He told us it had been the most important day of his life. There were many others like him.
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