{"id":62688,"date":"2025-09-24T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=62688"},"modified":"2025-09-22T21:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:42:06","slug":"cna-explains-everything-you-should-know-about-relics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/cna-explains-everything-you-should-know-about-relics\/","title":{"rendered":"CNA explica: Todo lo que debes saber sobre las reliquias"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis on display. \/ Credit: Courtesy of Milagro Eucar\u00edstico Per\u00fa - 1649 CNA Staff, Sep 4, 2025 \/ 05:17 am (CNA). From the finger of St. Thomas, to the arm of St. Jude, to the miraculous blood of St. Januarius and the Shroud of Turin, the Catholic Church is home to a plethora of relics. To an outsider, the tradition of venerating relics may seem strange; however, the roots of the practice are found in Scripture\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe Now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis on display. \/ Credit: Courtesy of Milagro Eucar\u00edstico Per\u00fa - 1649 CNA Staff, Sep 4, 2025 \/ 05:17 am (CNA). From the finger of St. Thomas, to the arm of St. Jude, to the miraculous blood of St. Januarius and the Shroud of Turin, the Catholic Church is home to a plethora of relics. To an outsider, the tradition of venerating relics may seem strange; however, the roots of the practice are found in Scripture\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":62685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-62688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":102362,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/st-bernadettes-relics-to-tour-the-united-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":62688,"position":0},"title":"St. Bernadette\u2019s relics to tour the United States","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"agosto 18, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes announced the relics of St. Bernadette Soubirous will travel to the United States as part of a 2026\u20132027 tour intended to bring the beloved saint to Catholic communities across America.The relics will depart Lourdes, France, and travel to the U.S. in September. The opening celebration will be held Sept. 18\u201320 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.Following the opening, the relics will continue on a yearlong\u2026","rel":"","context":"En \u00abChristian News\u00bb","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"St. Bernadette\u2019s relics to tour the United States","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/St.-Bernadettes-relics-to-tour-the-United-States.png?fit=756%2C844&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/St.-Bernadettes-relics-to-tour-the-United-States.png?fit=756%2C844&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/St.-Bernadettes-relics-to-tour-the-United-States.png?fit=756%2C844&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/St.-Bernadettes-relics-to-tour-the-United-States.png?fit=756%2C844&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":57559,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/st-thomas-mores-skull-may-be-exhumed-from-canterbury-vault-for-saints-500th-anniversary\/","url_meta":{"origin":62688,"position":1},"title":"St. Thomas More\u2019s skull may be exhumed from Canterbury vault for saint\u2019s 500th anniversary","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"octubre 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"St. Thomas More. \/ Credit: Public domain Canterbury, England, Jul 19, 2025 \/ 07:00 am (CNA). The skull of St. Thomas More may be exhumed and preserved to coincide with the 500th anniversary of his historic martyrdom, according to a spokesperson for St. Dunstan\u2019s Church in Canterbury, England, the Anglican church in which the relic reportedly currently rests. As the church begins the initial steps in a \u201cpermissions process,\u201d Sue Palmer, churchwarden at St. Dunstan Parochial Church Council (PCC), told\u2026","rel":"","context":"En \u00abChristian News\u00bb","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"St. Thomas More\u2019s skull may be exhumed from Canterbury vault for saint\u2019s 500th anniversary","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/St.-Thomas-Mores-skull-may-be-exhumed-from-Canterbury-vault-for-saints-500th-anniversary.webp?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/St.-Thomas-Mores-skull-may-be-exhumed-from-Canterbury-vault-for-saints-500th-anniversary.webp?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/St.-Thomas-Mores-skull-may-be-exhumed-from-Canterbury-vault-for-saints-500th-anniversary.webp?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/St.-Thomas-Mores-skull-may-be-exhumed-from-Canterbury-vault-for-saints-500th-anniversary.webp?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5153,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/will-harvard-return-an-alleged-third-century-relic-of-st-sebastian-to-the-church\/","url_meta":{"origin":62688,"position":2},"title":"Will Harvard return an alleged third-century relic of St. Sebastian to the Church?","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"junio 17, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"[ad_1] Source Harvard University. \/ Credit: Jon Bilous\/Shutterstock Boston, Mass., Jun 17, 2024 \/ 07:00 am (CNA). As Harvard University undergoes the process of returning some of the thousands of Indigenous human remains in its possession to those with cultural, ancestral, or religious ties to them, one Catholic group is calling on the university to return a sacred first-class relic of St. Sebastian to the Catholic Church.\"The appropriate location for a relic of St. Sebastian is a Catholic church, chapel,\u2026","rel":"","context":"En \u00abChristian News\u00bb","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1718623586_Harvard_Jon_Bilous___Shutterstock_CNA.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1718623586_Harvard_Jon_Bilous___Shutterstock_CNA.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1718623586_Harvard_Jon_Bilous___Shutterstock_CNA.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1718623586_Harvard_Jon_Bilous___Shutterstock_CNA.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9023,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/st-maximilian-kolbes-beard-ewtn-friars-draw-inspiration-from-unusual-relic\/","url_meta":{"origin":62688,"position":3},"title":"St. Maximilian Kolbe\u2019s beard: EWTN friars draw inspiration from unusual relic","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"marzo 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"[ad_1] St. Maximilian Kolbe. \/ Credit: Wikimedia Commons\/public domain CNA Staff, Aug 14, 2024 \/ 16:06 pm (CNA). Aug. 14 is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a saint best known for his heroic martyrdom at Auschwitz in 1941, when he volunteered to be executed in place of another prisoner.&nbsp;Like many Catholic saints, there exist today relics of Father Kolbe \u2014 pieces of a saint\u2019s body (first-class) or objects they owned (second-class) that are honored by the Catholic faithful\u2026","rel":"","context":"En \u00abChristian News\u00bb","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kolbe.png?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kolbe.png?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Kolbe.png?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":28288,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/why-the-church-has-celebrated-the-chair-of-st-peter-feast-for-1600-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":62688,"position":4},"title":"Why the Church has celebrated the Chair of St. Peter feast for 1,600 years","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"febrero 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"[ad_1] Altar of the Chair in St. Peter&#039;s Basilica, where Bernini&#039;s gorgeous bronze monument to the Chair of Peter acts as a massive bronze reliquary for the historic wooden chair. \/ Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 22, 2025 \/ 11:00 am (CNA). Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more than 1,600 years.The feast honors not just a physical chair but what it represents:\u2026","rel":"","context":"En \u00abChristian News\u00bb","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1740281683_altarofthechairvaticanmedia-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1740281683_altarofthechairvaticanmedia-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1740281683_altarofthechairvaticanmedia-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1740281683_altarofthechairvaticanmedia-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1740281683_altarofthechairvaticanmedia-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":22609,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/santas-tomb-coffin-of-st-nicholas-may-have-been-found-but-theres-a-catch\/","url_meta":{"origin":62688,"position":5},"title":"Santa\u2019s tomb? 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After years of excavation work, the leader of an archeological expedition at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, announced this week that her team has found a sarcophagus that may contain the body of&nbsp;St. Nick&nbsp;\u2014 a discovery that&nbsp;could muddy the conventional wisdom about the true resting place of the saint\u2019s relics, which is\u2026","rel":"","context":"En \u00abChristian News\u00bb","block_context":{"text":"Christian News","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/category\/christian-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733489142_jaroslav-cermak-1831-1878-sv.-mikulas.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733489142_jaroslav-cermak-1831-1878-sv.-mikulas.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733489142_jaroslav-cermak-1831-1878-sv.-mikulas.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733489142_jaroslav-cermak-1831-1878-sv.-mikulas.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CNA_LOGOredblk-30.png?fit=2692%2C752&ssl=1","mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_publicize_connections","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62688"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=62688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}