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The relics of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini are housed in a glass reliquary at the St. Frances Cabrini Shrine in Manhattan, New York. Mother Cabrini (1850-1917), an Italian-American Catholic nun who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized when P...

The Shirdi Sai Baba Shrine, located in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India, is a major pilgrimage center dedicated to Sai Baba of Shirdi, a spiritual teacher who lived from the mid-19th century until 1918. The temple complex contains his samadhi (tomb temple), where devotees from across India and internation...

The relics of St. John Neumann are enshrined at the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in St. Peter the Apostle Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Neumann, a Redemptorist priest and the fourth bishop of Philadelphia, died in 1860 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1977. His remains are display...

The Skull of Mary Magdalene at Saint-Maximin is a Christian relic kept in the Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Provence, France. It is venerated by Catholics as the skull of Mary Magdalene, although the attribution is a matter of religious tradition rather than a un...

The Bachall Ísu, an Irish name meaning Staff of Jesus, was a celebrated medieval relic traditionally identified as the pastoral staff of Saint Patrick. It was kept for centuries in Dublin and was used in ceremonies involving oaths and the confirmation of authority, reflecting its religious and polit...

The body of Saint Gerasimos is preserved and venerated at the Monastery of Saint Gerasimos on the Greek island of Kefalonia. Gerasimos was a sixteenth-century Orthodox monk who established a religious community on the island and later became recognized as Kefalonia's patron saint. His relics are dis...

Data Darbar is a Sufi shrine complex in Lahore, Pakistan, built around the tomb of Ali ibn Usman al-Hujwiri, also known as Data Ganj Bakhsh or Data Sahib. Hujwiri was a mystic, scholar, and author of Kashf al-Mahjub, an early Persian treatise on Sufism, and is venerated as a patron saint of Lahore....

The Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Shrine is a Sufi dargah in Sehwan, Sindh, Pakistan, built around the tomb of the 13th-century saint Usman Marwandi, known as Lal Shahbaz Qalandar. The shrine is an important centre of devotion for followers of the saint and receives pilgrims from across South Asia. Its obser...

The Skull of Saint Valentine in Rome is a Christian relic kept at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. It is venerated as the skull of Saint Valentine, a Christian martyr associated with the third century, with its identity grounded in religious tradition rather than a modern historical or foren...