VIDEO: Solemn Exposition of Relics at Ss Trinità dei Pellegrini (Church of the Most Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims) in Rome

1 November 2025 – Solemn Exposition of Relics at Ss Trinità dei Pellegrini (Church of the Most Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims) in Rome

The custom of the exposition of relics on All Saints Day in the Roman tradition is richly symbolic and pastorally powerful. In bringing the physical remains of the saints before the faithful, the Church does more than adorn her altars. She shows us the “great cloud of witnesses” (Heb 12:1), invites our veneration of the holy ones who have gone before us, and unites the heavenly liturgy with the earthly. For those attached to the traditional liturgy, it offers a venerable and evocative means of deepening the celebration of 1 November. All Saints Day, together with the Commemoration of All Souls, confirms our solidarity in God’s One Holy Church in three manners, Triumphant, Penitent, and Militant.

Contact with the relics of saints has resulted in miraculous healings, exorcisms and conversions.