The history of the Church is full of the testimony of the grace of the Holy Spirit through the incorrupt relics of God-pleasers. Incorrupt holy relics - the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy "let not your holy ones see corruption" (Ps. 15:10) and also a reminder of the future general resurrection of the dead and of eternal life. In New Testament times Christians were convinced through their own experience that the Holy Spirit can act even through things that touched saintly people. Honoring holy relics and other sacred items we do not venerate them as we do God,but honor them as vessels of the Holy Spirit which the God-pleasers still had during their lifetime.
Since antiquity up to this day Christians set out on distant pilgrim journeys throughout the world in order to venerate sacred things and to supplicate through them prayerful help from the Lord. In our Holy Trinity church in the city of Milwaukee, by the mercy of God, are gathered fragments of relics and pieces of the garments of many great saints.
You always have the opportunity to visit the church and venerate with faith and prayer our sacred items and to ask help from the God-pleasers.
"Holy God-pleaser (name) pray to God for me."
A list of shrines:
1. Fragment of the Cross of the Lord
2. Fragment from the Sash of the Most Holy Theotokos
3. Fragment from the relics of Hieromartyr St Clement of Rome
4. Fragment from the relics of Great Holy Martyr St George the Triumphant
5. Fragment from the tunic of St Julianna
6. Fragment from the relics of Holy Great Martyr St Panteleimon
7. Fragment from the relics of Holy Great Martyr St Demetrius of Thessaloniki
8. Fragment from the relics of Holy Great Martyr St Barbara
9. Fragment from the relics of the 40 Martyrs of St Sebaste
10. Fragment from the relics of Great Martyr St Paraskeva
11. Fragment from the relics of St Nicholas, Wonderworker of Myra
12. Fragment from the boot of St Spyridon of Trimythous
13. Fragment from the relics of St Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
14. Fragment of the relics of Sts Maria and Cyril of Radonezh (parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh)
15. Fragment from the relics of Venerable St Theophilus of Egypt
16. Fragment from the relics of Venerable St Theodore of Alexandria
17. Fragment from the relics of Venerable St Xenia of Rome
18. Fragment from the relics of St John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria
19. Fragment of the relics of the Holy Martyrs (of the year 614) of Saint Sabbas Monastery in Jerusalem
20. Fragment from the relics of St Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople
21. Fragment from the relics of St Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople
22. Fragment from the relics of Hieromartyr St Vladimir of Kiev
23. Fragment from the relics of Venerable St Alypius, the Iconographer of the Kiev Caves
24. Fragment from the relics of Blessed St Basil, Wonderworker of Moscow
25. Fragment from the relics of Ven. St Hilarion Schemamonk of the Kiev Caves
26. Fragment from the relics of Venerable St Herman of Alaska
27. Fragment from the relics of Venerable St Theophilus of China
28. Fragment from the relics of Venerable St John of Kiev
29. Fragment from the lining of the cassock of the Righteous St John of Kronstadt
30. Fragment from the relics of St Raphael of Brooklyn
31. Fragment from the overcoat of the Long-suffering St Tsar Nicholas
32. Fragment from the relics of Venerable Martyr St Elizabeth, the Grand Duchess
33. Fragment from the relics of St Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow
34. Fragment from the relics of St John of Riga
35. Fragment from the relics of Venerable St Kuksha of the Kiev Caves
36. Fragment from the cassock and casket of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco
37. Fragment from the relics of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco
38. Fragment of the relics of St Simeon of Verkhoturye
39. Fragment of the relics of Martyr St Eudokia of Suvorovsk (Puzovsk)
40. Fragment from the relics of St Theodosius of Chernigov
41. Fragment from the relics of Ven. St Mykola Sviatosha (Nicholas the Saint)
42. Fragment from the relics of Ven. St Prochorus of the Kiev Caves
43. Fragment of the relics of Ven. St Theophilus of Kiev, Fool-for-Christ
44. Fragment of the relics of Ven St Nikon the Dry of the Kiev Caves
45. Fragment of the relics of the Righteous St Juliana Olshanskaya of the Caves
46. Rock from the Top of Mount Sinai
47. Rock from the Top of Mount Athos
48. Fragment from the Oak of Mamre
49. Rock on which Venerable St Seraphim of Sarov prayed for 1000 nights
50. Rock from the Top of Mount of Temptation
Of the relics so far acquired, nine are embedded in icons and have already for some time occupied their place in our church. The rest are for now located in the altar and we plan to order for them a large and beautiful reliquary which, I hope, will shortly occupy an honorable place in our liturgical life.
