Restoring The Sacred… Meeting The Saints
By JAMES MONTI On June 25 I drove down to Philadelphia to meet two great men. The fact that they have been dead for almost five centuries did not dissuade me. For in Philadelphia’s Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul that evening, the English martyrs St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More were having a “meet and greet” of sorts — their relics, a bone fragment and tooth of More and a signet ring of Bishop Fisher, had arrived for the veneration of the faithful. The turnout was not on the epic scale that was witnessed in so many places last year when the body of St. Maria Goretti was brought to America for a pilgrimage tour, but those…Continue Reading