Relic display in one's home?

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My family has in it’s possession two 1st class relics of Saints (St. Thomas Aquinas & St. EA Seaton).
What are appropriate ways to reverently display them in one’s home?
Also, what about 2nd or 3rd class relics? We also are in possession of a number of those from various Saints.
Thank you in advance for your advice!
 
Big_Feet said:
My family has in it’s possession two 1st class relics of Saints (St. Thomas Aquinas & St. EA Seaton).
What are appropriate ways to reverently display them in one’s home?
Also, what about 2nd or 3rd class relics? We also are in possession of a number of those from various Saints.
Thank you in advance for your advice!
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Do you have a little ‘prayer corner’ in your home? You could display them that way.

Oooo, how lucky you are to have a first-class relic of St. Thomas Aquinas! 😃
 
barb_finnegan said:
Do you have a little ‘prayer corner’ in your home? You could display them that way.
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We have a “prayer table” where we keep our family bible displayed, rosaries, a small statue of the Michelangelo’s Pieta, and other sacramentals.
This is where we currently have the relics, too, but they are only in their little metal/glass reliquery(sp) and laying in display on that table. I wasnt sure if we should be doing something different.
 
Big_Feet said:
My family has in it’s possession two 1st class relics of Saints (St. Thomas Aquinas & St. EA Seaton).
What are appropriate ways to reverently display them in one’s home?
Also, what about 2nd or 3rd class relics? We also are in possession of a number of those from various Saints.
Thank you in advance for your advice!
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You could place the first class relics in a reliquary on the prayer table you already have… If they aren’t already encased in a reliquary, that is. I bought a reliquary for the first class relic I had of St. Teresa of Avila and kept it on display on the table of my prayer shrine that I have in my room. I later gave the reliquary to a favorite priest of mine who also has a devotion to this saint.

You can purchase a reliquary at autom.com for about $49… Just click on the Church Supplies tab at the top of the web page, then select “Monstrance/Ostensorias” and there you will find it. It’s the cheapest that I have seen a reliquary go for on the internet.

Hope this helps.

God bless
 
Big_Feet,
How was your family able to get hold of a relic of St. Thomas Aquinas?

I’ve always wanted to get a relic of my patron saint, St. Vincent Ferrer, but I don’t know how to get one. Any ideas?
 
browebmaster said:
Big_Feet,
How was your family able to get hold of a relic of St. Thomas Aquinas?

I’ve always wanted to get a relic of my patron saint, St. Vincent Ferrer, but I don’t know how to get one. Any ideas?
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My wife obtained both St. Thomas (piece of humor bone) & a 1st class relic of St. E A Seton in Rome a number of years before we met. I believe we have the documents in a file somewhere, too. (we also have a number of 2nd and 3rd class relics of various other saints)
 
vincent ferrer??

i think contact the shrine or where his body is located…

but i think its almost impossible :)))
 
CatholicLife said:
The Shrine of Blessed Xavier Seelos in New Orleans gives you a first class relic of Bl Seelos for a donation of $30.
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If you have to give a donation for the relic then that is a sale.
Nobody can be so naive as to think it is not.
 
thistle said:
If you have to give a donation for the relic then that is a sale.
Nobody can be so naive as to think it is not.
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Well it’s more like on infomercials when they’re like “BUT WAIT! IF YOU BUY NOW, THEN YOU GET THIS TOASTER FOR FREEEE!!!”

you’re technically not buying the toaster, but depending on how much you like toast, it could be the only reason why you’re buying whatever they’re trying to sell.

It’s also like how back in the day, the church gave indulgences for when you donated to the church. You never bought the indulgence, you donated, and then it’s like “surprise! you get an indulgence!”

but then again, we all see how that turned out.

so yeah, it’s not a sale, and not really all that bad, but it can easily be abused and turned into simony.
 
The traditional practice is to have two candles lit when a first class relic is exposed for public veneration in a private Chapel or Oratory. When not exposed for public veneration they are either veiled or removed to a safe place, (never a tabernacle or aumbry). Any first or second class relic which is exposed in a public place of worship must have the authentication (documents). Not reuired for private chapels or oratories, most authrities do encorage that those who have permission from their local ordinary to keep first class relics in private homes follow the same protocol and not simply expose the relics when not engaged in acts of veneration…

There are several forged relics with documents stating that they were authenticated by Nicolas Ferrante. Fr. Ferrante was a Redemptorist who worked on the cause for the canonization of St. John Neumann of Philadelphia. Someone copied the documents, replacing then Blessed John’s name with the names of other Saints, including the Apostles, and other hard to obtain relics. They for some time were distributed by a convent in Rome, and a traditionalist priest in Arizona, who it would seem were unaware that the relics and paperwork were not authentic. So we need to be careful about these relics.
 
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