How rare saintly relics ended up at a college in New York

The World

There’s an archive at Manhattan University in New York for the De La Salle Christian Brothers, a lay order founded in France and now headquartered in Rome. The order, dedicated to education, is shrinking. As its institutions shut down, boxes upon boxes of relics are being sent to this campus, where an archivist wants the objects to be displayed in a reliquary so that visitors can venerate them. Jon Kalish reports.

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