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Some bone, reportedly from one of the church\u2019s oldest saints, is drawing the faithful and the curious.<\/p>\n

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From a local paper<\/strong><\/a> in San Bernardino, California:<\/p>\n

Sixteen hundred years ago, if someone wanted to describe a relic of Mary Magdalene and the cave in southern France in which it rests, they would have needed a little vellum and a lot of patience.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, all it took was the click of a camera phone.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of faithful Catholics and even a few from other faiths brought plenty of those to St. Catherine of Siena in Rialto to capture the image of a 6-inch piece of bone believed to have been from Mary Magdalene, among the holiest saints of the church.<\/p>\n

So goes veneration of saints in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt got here at 6:30 this morning,\u201d the Rev. Stephen Porter, pastor of St. Catherine, said quietly, as if about to impart a secret. \u201cThe first thing I did was knelt in front of it and prayed. Then I took a photo of it. My\u00a0Facebook<\/a> page was updated with the photo by 7:30.\u201d<\/p>\n

The relic\u2019s visit brought a virtual social network of Catholics and the curious to St. Catherine, its 25th stop on a one-month tour of the state that started Feb. 14. It\u2019s the first time the relic, a fragment of bone from Mary Magdelene\u2019s tibia, has come to California. It toured the eastern and southern U.S. in 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the rest<\/strong><\/a>, including a great gallery of pictures.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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