The arm of St. Jude, a relic of “one of Jesus Christ’s closest collaborators,” was at St. Michael Parish in Lincoln Sept. 27 as part of a U.S. tour, the first time the relic has left Italy.
Jude, “the Lord’s first cousin,” was one of Christ’s Twelve Apostles and is believed to have been martyred in Beirut several decades after Christ’s death and resurrection. History records his body as having been transferred to a tomb in St. Peter’s Basilica centuries after his death; his arm was subsequently removed and placed in a reliquary in the shape of a priest’s hand giving a blessing.
SNR photos | Cathy Blankenau Bender
