Harvard intends to keep relic of St. Sebastian

[Michie]

Rather than return the first-class relic to the Church for veneration, the private university will keep it locked up in their collection for "research."

A Catholic group is calling out Harvard University for failing to return a holy relic to the Church. The relic in question is said to be of the martyr St. Sebastian, which would date it back to the 3rd century. The refusal to return the relic comes on the heels of Harvard’s decision to repatriate the remains of individuals thought to be enslaved and of Native Americans from the schools’ massive collection.

Rather than return the first-class relic to the Church for veneration, the private university will keep it locked up in their collection for "research."

A Catholic group is calling out Harvard University for failing to return a holy relic to the Church. The relic in question is said to be of the martyr St. Sebastian, which would date it back to the 3rd century. The refusal to return the relic comes on the heels of Harvard’s decision to repatriate the remains of individuals thought to be enslaved and of Native Americans from the schools’ massive collection.

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Harvard intends to keep relic of St. Sebastian

Rather than return the first-class relic to the Church for veneration, the private university will keep it locked up in their collection for "research."

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[RileyG]

That’s too bad.

 

[AlexB23]

Rather than return the first-class relic to the Church for veneration, the private university will keep it locked up in their collection for "research."

A Catholic group is calling out Harvard University for failing to return a holy relic to the Church. The relic in question is said to be of the martyr St. Sebastian, which would date it back to the 3rd century. The refusal to return the relic comes on the heels of Harvard’s decision to repatriate the remains of individuals thought to be enslaved and of Native Americans from the schools’ massive collection.

Rather than return the first-class relic to the Church for veneration, the private university will keep it locked up in their collection for "research."

A Catholic group is calling out Harvard University for failing to return a holy relic to the Church. The relic in question is said to be of the martyr St. Sebastian, which would date it back to the 3rd century. The refusal to return the relic comes on the heels of Harvard’s decision to repatriate the remains of individuals thought to be enslaved and of Native Americans from the schools’ massive collection.

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Harvard intends to keep relic of St. Sebastian

Rather than return the first-class relic to the Church for veneration, the private university will keep it locked up in their collection for "research."

aleteia.org

Looks like the Vatican needs to hire the guys from Mission Impossible to break in and retrieve St. Sebastian's relic at the dead of night from Harvard's storage facility, and return it back to the Church.

JK, I do not condone theft.

 

[Michie]

Harvard returns Danish mummies, won’t do same for Catholic saint relic...

 

[AlexB23]

Harvard returns Danish mummies, won’t do same for Catholic saint relic...

Harvard is run by worldly folks who do not care for religion. Good school though, but a lot of colleges sadly do not care for Christians.

 

[Michie]

As Harvard University undergoes the process of returning some of the thousands of Indigenous human remains in its possession to those with cultural, ancestral, or religious ties to them, one Catholic group is calling on the university to return a sacred first-class relic of St. Sebastian to the Catholic Church.

“The appropriate location for a relic of St. Sebastian is a Catholic church, chapel, or shrine, not the library of a secular university,” C.J. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, told the College Fix in May.

“Harvard should do the right thing and donate it to a local Catholic church,” he said.

In a statement to CNA, Harvard Library spokeswoman Kerry Conley said the relic was acquired by the school through a purchase from an antiquarian bookseller in 2021.

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Will Harvard return an alleged third-century relic of St. Sebastian?

The Ivy League university is currently in the process of returning Indigenous human remains in its possession to those with cultural, ancestral, or religious ties to them.

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