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The International Crusade for Holy Relics welcomes you to participate in the “OPERATION: SPECIAL INTENTION TOUR", specifically designed for the public veneration and prayerful intentions of families and individuals with loved ones serving in the military, past present and future.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels will host the custom painted icon with the images of St. Anthony of Padua, St. Therese of Lisieux and St. Ignatius of Loyola with an embed relic of each Saint in crosses. The tour begins July 25, 2007 through August 8, 2007 at the
St. Viviana Chapel, located in the Mausoleum level of the cathedral. Faithful are invited to offer prayers and to the venerate the Holy Relics of the Saints. When we address the saints, we beg them to pray for us through the merits of Jesus Christ, while we ask Jesus to help us through his own merits. The Church declares, with regards to the invocation of saints that it is useful and salutary to ask for their prayers.
The icon and relics will be reserved in a side chapel in the south ambulatory of the Cathedral. The faithful are invited to write their intentions a special book of prayers and take a holy card with the image of the icon and the Saints and a special prayer.
The Deacons of the Archdiocese will host the icon and the relics in various parishes throughout the Archdiocese until November then the relics will travel throughout the United States for a national tour of Operation: Special Intention.
St. Anthony of Padua, patron of sailors, mariners.
St. Therese of Lisieux, patron of air crew, aircraft pilots and aviators.
St. Ignatius of Loyola, patron of soldiers.
Saints Profiles:
St. Anthony of Padua
Anthony’s wealthy family wanted him to be a great nobleman, but for the sake of Christ he became a poor Franciscan Priest. When the remains of the first Franciscan martyrs, were brought to be buried in his church, Anthony was moved to leave his order, enter the Friars Minor and go to Morocco to evangelize. Shipwrecked at Sicily, he joined some other brothers who were going to Portiuncula. Memorial: June 13
St. Therese of Lisieux,
aka Therese of the Child Jesus the Little Flower.
Born to a middle class French family. Her father, Louis, was a watchmaker, her mother, who died of cancer when Therese was 4, was a lace maker, and both have been declared Venerable by the church. Cured from an illness at age eight when a statue of the Blessed Virgin smiled at her. Carmelite nun at age 15.
Memorial: October 1
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish nobility. Youngest of twelve children. Page in the Spanish court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Military education. Soldier, entering the army in 1517, and serving in several campaigns. Wounded by a cannonball at the siege of Pampeluna on May 20 1521, an injury that left him partially crippled for life. Memorial: July 31.
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