By CathNews, Australian Catholics Bishop Conference Read original article “It’s my first GoFundMe campaign,” said Bill Jacobs, co-founder and president of the Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Conservation Centre. Speaking to CNA about the centre’s “Rescue Saint Kateri Reliquary!” campaign, he explained: “Our hope is to raise enough money and get it back into the hands of … Read more
Read original article By Catholic Ecology Thanks to 21st century crowd sourcing, a relic of a 17th century saint can now come home. It took only ten days for a unique GoFundMe campaign to make history with the rescue of a precious reliquary that—it appears—holds a priceless first-class relic of St. Kateri Tekakwitha—patroness of ecology … Read more
Read original article By Stephen Williams, The Daily Gazette An online fundraiser is underway to help supporters of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha acquire a rare relic and return it to the Roman Catholic Church. Organizers are hoping to buy a historic plated-silver box containing a piece of one of the saint’s bones that was previously in … Read more