Catholic "Relics of the Passion" program, Riverton, 2017-05-19

Last night my friend Ed McCarthy took my wife and me along with some other friends to the St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Riverton to attend a presentation entitled Call from the Crucified Heart: A Program with Relics of the Passion. The nine-part presentation chronicled the last days of Jesus Christ's life, and each part (or "meditation") featured a relic from His life, as follows:
     

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Mediation #1: The Last Supper (relic = a piece of wood from the table at which Christ ate the Last Supper)

Mediation #2: Scourging at the Pillar (relic = a piece of wood from the column of the flagellation)

Mediation #3: The Crowning of Thorns (relic = a piece from the crown of thorns that Jesus wore)

Mediation #4: The Way of the Cross (relic = the veil of Veronica, which is the cloth that Veronica used to wipe the face of the Savior as he made his way to Calvary)

Mediation #5: Crucifixion (relic = a replica of a nail used to nail Jesus to the cross, and which was made with some filings from the true nail)

Mediation #6: The Cross (relic = piece of wood from the cross on which Jesus was crucified)

 Mediation #7: St. Longinus and the Piercing of the Side of Jesus (relic = fragment of bone from St. Longinus' skeleton)

Mediation #8: The Burial Shroud (relic = piece of the coverlet used to wrap the shroud that covered Jesus' body)

Mediation #9: Epilogue (relic = fragments of bone from each of the original 12 Apostles as well as a couple of other New Testament disciples)

Each piece was displayed by a member of the Knights of Columbus: