When you think about it, looking a skull square in the empty eye sockets can seem pretty creepy. Macabre, perhaps. Definitely ...
Hafenmair was one of more than 1,500 people who visited Ss. Philip and James Dec. 17-18 to pray and venerate the relic of St.
The Rev. Michael Weibley, the pastor of S.S. Philip and James Catholic Church in Charles Village, is preparing for the arrival of a sacred relic, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas. (Amy Davis/Staff ...
Today, St. Thomas Aquinas finishes his first-ever tour of the U.S. - only 750 years after his death. What I mean is, the skull of the famous priest made several stops in the U.S. as a celebration ...
The skull of St. Thomas, which has been on tour in Europe for the past year for observances marking the jubilees of his canonization (700 years in 2023), death (750 years in 2024) and birth (800 ...
What makes the skull so important is not that it held mind and truth, but that it held the mind of saint who will receive his body back on the last day,” Little said. “That, too, is a powerful ...
Carol Zimmerman, news editor at the National Catholic Reporter, went to see the purported skull of St. Thomas Aquinas. She tells NPR's Ailsa Chang about its importance to Catholics and her experience.