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Bro Richard, CA

Just to inform you… The relic of St Pope John Paul found its way home today… I’ll contact you again shortly after our joy and excitement subsides … God reward you and The Russian Store

Brendan, TX

I have received the three icons. They are exquisite!

Отец Дмитрий, Москва

Мощи получил в целости и сохранности! Дай Бог здравия и благоденствия ребятам доставившим святыню в Россию! Ещё раз благодарю Вас за ту радость которую вы подарили мне и нашей обители в мощах святого Бенедикта. Храни Вас Христос!

Sonita, CA

I received my relic today (St. Joseph,St Peter etc) Thank you. I really like it. Till next time order.?

Fr. Gregory

The relic came in. I wanted to cry. My heart was so overwhelmed with joy. On my 25th anniversary the Discalsed Monastery celebrated mass with me in their cloister. The Mother Prioress with the sisters came be a hard bound copy of his writings and his life. I feel it was the hand of Blessed Francisco was moving them. And with this holy relic he is moving me. I will do a more intensive study of him. I will place his relic in the large reliquary I have with John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, and Therese of Liseaux. He will be at home.

Reliquary theca with a relic of St. Asterius of Ostia, Martyr

Oval glass-fronted silver pendant reliquary theca housing the first-class ex ossibus (of the bone) relic of Saint Asterius of Ostia, Martyr. The relic is affixed to a gilt paper starburst on a salmon-colored silk ground, surrounded by silver wire ornamentation, and identified in Latin on a fancy manuscript cedula label as Ex oss. S. Asterii Presbyt. & M. (of the bone of Saint Asterius, Presbyter & Martyr). On the back, the theca is secured with a seal of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of Fr. Francesco Maria Ginori (†1775), Bishop of Fiesole, Italy (1736–1775).

Saint Asterius of Ostia († ca. 222) was a martyred priest. According to tradition, he was a priest of Rome who recovered the body of Pope Callixtus I after it had been tossed into a well. Asterius buried Callixtus' body at night but was arrested for this action by prefect Alexander and then killed by being thrown off a bridge into the Tiber River. His body washed up at Ostia and was buried there. Asterius was venerated from at least the 4th or 5th centuries. His Feast Day is commemorated on 21 October.