Relics of St. Aurelia

St. Louis Globe-Democrat

1945-06

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Catholic
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Saints. Sacred images (icons) and relics

Saint Louis (Mo.)

1940-1949

"In 1861, Reverend Mother Saint John Facemaz, Superior General of the Congregation, during a visit to the Holy City, obtained... the body of the child-martyr, St. Aurelia... The principal well-preserved bones are encased in a waxen figure clothed in Roman tunic and mantle, and the smaller ones are sealed in a metallic case, near which is placed the Vas Sanguinis, the vial of blood found in the tomb beside the martyr's body... The Martyr's Altar contained in five niches three skulls and the bones of seventy martyrs of the early church."

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