She’s mostly just sad about having to travel by something other than foot. (Bicycle trailer on the way there, Uber on the way back, neither of which she likes.) She was sedated for the actual dental work. And unlike last year, when 20 of her teeth had to be extracted, she didn’t end up with any extractions this year.
1/24 – wooden ship rudder RELIC from the Virginia Ship Building Company that produced battleships for WWI at what is now Jones Point Park underneath the Wilson Bridge
“At the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, pilgrims may venerate a first-class relic of St. John Paul II’s blood that is contained in a glass ampoule at the center of an ornate reliquary.”
1/24/2024 – In addition to often having special celebrations to venerate a particular relic, the gift shop at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception even sells prayer cards with third-class relics (e.g., a small piece of cloth that had touched a first-class relic and therefore is a third-class relic per canon law).