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Today's date:
Wednesday August 27, 2008 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 23, 2007 Contact: Thomas Serafin
(818) 416-9279
RELICS OF MILITARY PATRON SAINTS TO TOUR LA ARCHDIOCESE
Faithful asked to pray for troops serving in harms way LOS ANGELES Relics of
Catholic saints considered the patrons of the branches of the armed forces will
tour the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, beginning July 25 at the Cathedral of Our
Lady of the Angels. Called Operation: Special Intention, the tour of these relics
is a joint effort between the Los Angeles-based International Crusade for Holy
Relics (ICHR) and the deacons of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. With the men
and women of our armed forces deployed in harms way throughout the world, we wanted
to find a way to let those of us on the home front support the troops with our
prayers for their safety and for peace in the world, said Thomas Serafin, ICHR
president.
It is also an opportunity for us to pray for the souls of those who have made
the ultimate sacrifice. The relics traveling throughout the archdiocese include
relics of St. Anthony of Padua, patron of sailors, St. Therese of Lisieux, patron
of pilots and air crews and St. Ignatius of Loyola, patron of soldiers. The tour
will run through August 8. After the tour of parishes in Los Angeles, the relics
will be made available to other dioceses around the country. More information
is available at www.olacathedral.org The ICHR promotes education, preservation
and veneration of relics. For more than a decade it has battled the illicit sale
of relics on the internet, and has rescued thousands of religious artifacts slated
to be sold or thrown away.
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