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Faith Q&A › Metropolitan Youssef › St. Mary and the Saints

3 questions

• QOne of my friends told me that, "the honor we pay to the rotten bones and dust of the Saints, by adoring, kissing, wrapping them up in silk and placing them in golden…
• QHow do we know that the relics of martyrs in our church are real and what do we say when people outside our religion, ask about it?
• QWhat do we say in English for perfuming the relics of saints on their feast?

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