Question about a Byzantine Monastery that houses a certain relic

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Does anyone know about the Byzantine nuns of St. Clare in North Royalton. Has anyone ever visited their monastery? I read that they had relics of St. Maximina and I was wondering if anyone has visited this monastery and venerated these relics.
 
Hello!

I visited Sts. Maximina and Hyacinth last year at the Poor Clares Monastery. It was a wonderful experience. St. Maximina was a priest’s wife who was beheaded (with St. Monton) for the Faith in the year 304 A.D. She was discovered in the catacombs in the 1800’s and her bones were intact, and a vial of her blood was buried with her to authenticate her remains. The relics of her body and head were encased in a wax sculpture when they were received by the Chicago Poor Clare Roman Rite nuns in the late 1920’s. She is beautiful! So is her story! The few remaining nuns in North Royalton are now Byzantine Rite Poor Clares. They receive visitors during the summer months, but they are elderly and in poor health. Please pray for them!

St. Hyacinth’s bones were also transferred from Italy to the States with St. Maximina and another childy martyr, St. Innocent. St. Hyacinth is in a similar wax sculpture with the nuns in Ohio. He was a young Roman, about age 16, who was also beheaded for the Faith. He died in the year 109 A.D.

I understand the relic of St. Innocent is located at a Franciscan Church in Washington D.C.

If anyone else has info about St. Maximina, please post. I have heard of several miraculous cures due to her intercession. There is also info at fatherleofrancismcnamara.blogspot.com which is where I originally learned about her.

Seek and you shall find. God bless you!
 
I know this post is quite old, but I thought I would reply:

As far as I know, the body of St. Maximina is encased in glass at St Adrian’s Church in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood. I own several devotional cards with her prayer on the back as well as a gold plastic pendant with her resting on the front and a saying on the back. She and her husband Montanus were truly remarkable martyrs and people, it is just a shame we don’t have more info on these early martyrs.

On another note, I have long sought one of her relics to keep in a reliquary, but Canon law forbids it 😦
 
St. Maximina was indeed at St. Adrian’s parish for a few years until roughly 1972. She has not been there since. If you were a parishioner at St. Adrian’s you probably knew Fr. Leo McNamara who was very devoted to her as well. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who knows of the miraculous cures regarding intercession to St. Maximina and likewise of the holy priest Fr. McNamara. I never knew him.
 
randada said:
St. Maximina was indeed at St. Adrian’s parish for a few years until roughly 1972. She has not been there since. If you were a parishioner at St. Adrian’s you probably knew Fr. Leo McNamara who was very devoted to her as well. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who knows of the miraculous cures regarding intercession to St. Maximina and likewise of the holy priest Fr. McNamara. I never knew him.
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I have heard many stories about Father Leo and his devotion to St Maximina. He passed on some time ago, having been at St Adrian’s for many, many years.

Apparently, the holy remains of St. Maximina “oozed watery blood” sometime prior to 1972. It isnt’t very well known, but this is an example of divine phenomenon of Chicago that has faded into the depths of history.

Interestingly enough, a gentleman by the name of Richard Crowe (The Chicago Ghost Tours guy) investigated this but I am not able to ask him as he passed away in June.

It was from him that I received the Maximina prayer cards and pendant…
 
Yazdgerd: If you haven’t checked out the site on Fr. McNamara at fatherleofranklinmcnamara.blogspot.com yet, you should.
There is some very interesting information there. I’m sure the man who keeps that site would love to hear what you know. What’s this ghostbusters group in Chicago of which you speak?God be with you.
 
randada said:
Yazdgerd: If you haven’t checked out the site on Fr. McNamara at fatherleofranklinmcnamara.blogspot.com yet, you should.
There is some very interesting information there. I’m sure the man who keeps that site would love to hear what you know. What’s this ghostbusters group in Chicago of which you speak?God be with you.
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The man I speak of was named Richard Crowe. He was a devout Catholic who built up a reputation of a local expert into the paranormal and religious phenomenon. His website is ghosttours.com.

I did check out the site on Fr Leo: I had no idea he was ordained nearly 100 years ago! I though he would have been a contemporary of say, Fulton Sheen or so, maybe being 100 years old if he was still alive.

What a remarkable story!
 
How hasty I was! It appears that a pilgrimage to North Royalton is in order!

Also, I have heard that sometime in the 40’s or so, there were prayer cards which included a piece of the Holys Saintess’ vestment. Has anyone heard of this?
 
When I was 4 years old (in 1968) my mom started taking me to see Father MacNamara who was known for healing miracles–because I had (have) a rare bone disease. They didn’t know what it was right away so my mom took me to him desperately looking for a miracle. I’m pretty sure she got one.

Father MacNamara had the remains of Saint Maximina in his room at Saint Adrians which was behind and to the side of the altar. He would let us go right up to her. I had a gold colored pendant with her image on it when I was a kid. I don’t think I have it any more. I have a Saint Maximina relic card with her picture on it from way back then. I would ask for her intercession and I felt a special connection to her.

I never met any one with what I have, but when I look at the images online and the postings of the people that have it. It is clear to me that I have been blessed. I have been told by surgeons that I am very “fortunate” because mine is the mildest case they’ve seen (at least back then). I believe that I received a miracle on account of my moms faith and prayers, Father Mac, Saint Maximina and Padre Pio.
 
marie_francois said:
When I was 4 years old (in 1968) my mom started taking me to see Father MacNamara who was known for healing miracles–because I had (have) a rare bone disease. They didn’t know what it was right away so my mom took me to him desperately looking for a miracle. I’m pretty sure she got one.

Father MacNamara had the remains of Saint Maximina in his room at Saint Adrians which was behind and to the side of the altar. He would let us go right up to her. I had a gold colored pendant with her image on it when I was a kid. I don’t think I have it any more. I have a Saint Maximina relic card with her picture on it from way back then. I would ask for her intercession and I felt a special connection to her.

I never met any one with what I have, but when I look at the images online and the postings of the people that have it. It is clear to me that I have been blessed. I have been told by surgeons that I am very “fortunate” because mine is the mildest case they’ve seen (at least back then). I believe that I received a miracle on account of my moms faith and prayers, Father Mac, Saint Maximina and Padre Pio.
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Perhaps this might be of interest:

"We beseech thee, O Lord, through the intercession of Thy martyr, St. Maximina, look down upon thy people that they may be strengthened unto piety, obtain to the remission of their sins, be delivered from the devil and his deceits, be filled with the Holy Ghost, and obtain life everlasting. Amen.

(Taken from the original prayer card circa late 1960’s that hangs in my work cubicle) 👍
 
Dear blessed above: There are some recent photos of St. Maximina posted at fatherleofranklinmcnamara.blogspot.com. She is a beautiful and very powerful Saint. Please contact the gentleman at that website to share the rest of your remarkable story. God bless you.
 
Yazdgerd:

I’ve come in contact with a few people who knew Fr. Mac, and some say that Father said the last pope “the good pope” would come from an Eastern rite. Of what you know of Fr. Mac, had you ever been told this? Can you share anything else about the strange happenings surrounding the holy priest? Do you have contact with any of the parishioners at St. Adrian’s that knew Father first-hand? Thanks and God bless. “When the east is to meet the west, the Lord always has a hand in it.”
 
I attended St. Adrian’s School in the 1950s And a knew father Mac.

He was a holy, revered, and kind man.
 
Hello, I know you posted this question over 2 years ago and you might have already visited the Monestery by now, but I just saw your post. I have been to visit the Monestery many times over the last 4 years. The Abbess is my father’s cousin. I have seen the relics and St. Maximina is indeed quite beautiful. My brother and I are going to visit again in November. There is some literature available about both saints and how they came to be in North Royalton. You can write to the Monestery for this information. I know, however that the abbess iis quite busy as she handles all the correspondence for the Monestery. If you would like I can pick up this literature when I’m there in November and mail it to you.

Please keep the dear Sisters in your prayers. They are so wonderful!
 
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