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St. Maria's remains are visited by faithful at Our Lady of Grace Church in Greensboro, N.C., on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. People of the faith believe that miracles can take place from being in her presence.
A glass casket with a wax statue of St. Maria is ushered into Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Greensboro, N.C., on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. The actual remains of St. Maria are not visible through the casket. More than a hundred people came to the church Friday morning for a prayer service.
More than a hundred people came to Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Greensboro, N.C., on Friday morning to see the relics of St. Maria, the youngest canonized saint. Her remains cannot be seen from the glass-encased casket. The casket holds a wax statue of the saint, wearing a headband of flowers and clutching a white rosary.
A program of the prayer service this morning for St. Maria, whos relics are at a Greensboro church on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. This is the first time her remains have traveled to the United States and only the second time she has left Italy.
The remains of Saint Maria Goretti arrive at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015.
Students from Belmont Abbey Catholic College in Belmont, N.C., have come to see St. Maria Goretti in Greensboro, N.C., on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015.
People pose with the van that brought St. Maria Goretti's remains to Greensboro, N.C., on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015.
At top, a glass-encased casket containing the relics of the Catholic Church’s youngest canonized saint, Saint Maria Goretti, was placed at the front of Our Lady of Grace Church on Friday.
Pilgrim and Our Lady of Grace parishioner, Brigette Mottram, wipes away tears after seeing the glass-encased casket containing the relics of the Catholic Church’s youngest canonized saint, Saint Maria Goretti on Friday.
Pilgrims file off a bus to wait in line with others to go inside Our Lady of Grace Church on Friday for a special prayer service held in honor of the Catholic Church’s youngest canonized saint, Saint Maria Goretti.
Posted: Friday, October 23, 2015 8:37 am
GREENSBORO — Second in a line that was quickly growing, Brigett Mottram pressed a rosary to the glass-encased casket of the Catholic Church’s youngest canonized saint in the sanctuary at Our Lady of Grace on Friday. Then she bent down to pray.
“I feel Jesus closer to me than in a long, long time,” the teary-eyed retired teaching assistant said afterward.
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