You Wanna See Pictures? I've Got Pictures For You

by Thomas A. Droleskey

Here are the photographs to accompany It's Still Better This Than Purgatory (or Worse!) in 2008, part 5. I hope that you enjoy the montage. (Some of the photographs I wanted to post were lost when my computer was attacked by www.system-defender.com.)

A beautiful view of Saint Gertrude the Great Church, West Chester, Ohio, at sundown, Sunday, June 29, 2008. (That's the old car that belongs to His Excellency Bishop Sanborn's mother that we borrowed for two days when the Trail Blazer was in the shop following the broken lug nut incident.)

The Infant of Prague, garbed as befits the month of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Saint Gertrude the Great Church, West Chester, Ohio.

Some of the patrons at Chef Klaus's Peotone Bierstube, Peotone, Illinois, Thursday, July 3, 2008.

A German friar have a pint of beer, it appears. At the Bierstube, Thursday, July 3, 2008.

Part of Father Martin Stepanich's garden, Bolingbrook, Illinois, Friday, July 4, 2008.

Miss Samantha Current and Miss Lucy Mary Norma Droleskey attending to Father Martin's garden, July 4, 2008.

The fairest flower of our race, Our Lady, surrounded by flowers so fair in Father Martin Stepanich's garden, July 4, 2008.

Yet another specimen from Father Martin's garden, Friday, July 4, 2008.

The statue of Saint Joseph that just "happened" to arrive at Father Martin's residence in Bolingbrook, Illinois, as a young boy rescued it from a conciliar parish that was throwing out the statue. The boy put Saint Josep in Radio Flyer wagon and then pulled him to Father Martin's. Quite a touching story.

Isn't it amazing to behold what God willed into existence by a pure act of His Intellect? Father Martin Stepanich's garden, Bolingbrook, Illinois, Friday, July 4, 2008.

He was a baby polar bear last year when we visited the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois on Friday, April 20, 2008. He's not such a baby any more. Brookfield Zoo, Friday, July 4, 2008.

Lucy, dressed in her Carmelite habit, sweeping out the cloister at Saint Gertrude the Great Church as part of her volunteer work in preparation for her Confirmation.

At Mitchell's Fish Market, West Chester Ohio, with Mr. Bernie Brueggemann, a magnificent Catholic gentleman whose wife, Rita, died earlier this year. Please continue to remember Rita Brueggemann's immortal soul in your prayers, and please also pray for "Uncle Bernie," as he known most affectionately to the people of Saint Gertrude's. Sunday, July 13, 2008.

Lucy Mary Therese Norma Droleskey, kneeling before the altar of the "Two Marys" (Our Lady and Saint Mary Magdalene) after her Confirmation by His Excellency Bishop Daniel L. Dolan on Wednesday, July 16, 2008, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Saint Gertrude the Great Church, West Chester, Ohio.

Lucy kneeling before an image of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Penguins at the Indianapolis Zoo, Indianapolis, Indiana, Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Penguins are favorites of Lucy's and of her Confirmation sponsor, Mrs. Anonymous.

A walrus at the Indianapolis Zoo, July 23, 2008.

One of his anestors carried Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday (and another had carried Our Lady with Our Lord inside of her Virginal and Immacualte Womb from Nazareth to Bethlehem). Indianapolis Zoo, July 23, 2008.

The trained elephant at the Indianapoli Zoo, July 23, 2008.

I just love zebras. Don't you? Indianapolis Zoo, July 23, 2008.

Giraffes sticking their necks out for some rye crisps. Indianapolis Zoo, July 23, 2008.

A real live Koala! Indianapolis Zoo, July 23, 2008.

Lucy's first trip to Parky's Farm, Hamilton County, Ohio, Saturday, July 26, 2008.

A participant from World Youth Day resting up at Parky's Farm, Saturday, July 26, 2008.

Lucy going through some vines at Parky's Farm, Saturday, July 26, 2008.

More aboriginal participants from World Youth Day in Australia. Parky's Farm, July 26, 2008.

A scene at Parky's Farm, Saturday, July 26, 2008.

Father and daugher walking along the trail at Parky's Farm, Saturday, July 26, 2008.

Mother and daughter walking along the trail at Parky's Farm, Saturday, July 26, 2008.

A covered bridge near Parky's Farm, Hamilton County, Ohio, Saturday, July 26, 2008.

Baked goods at the Stew Leonard's rip-off called Jungle Jim's, Fairfield, Ohio, Monday, July 28, 2008.

The Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, Ohio, Thursday, July 31, 2008.

Approaching the Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, Ohio, Thursday, July 31, 2008.

You will have to use your zoom feature to focus in on the names of the saints whose relics are displayed in this and the many photographs that follow. Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, Ohio, Thursday, July 31, 2008.

A wonderful image of the Pieta, Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, Ohio, Thursday, July 31, 2008.

A close-up of the Pieta. Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, Ohio, Thursday, July 31, 2008.

Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, Ohio, Thursday, July 31, 2008.

Showing Lucy the relics. Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, Ohio, Thursday, July 31, 2008.

All you saints in Heaven, pray for us!

Ah, you can make out the Cure of Ars here.

They are not properly beatified. Our Lady did say that they would go to Heaven, did she not? Jacinta and Francisco, pray for us. Saint Albert the Great, O.P., pray for us. Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., pray for us.

Viva Cristo Rey! Father Miguel Augstin Pro, S.J., pray for us.

State of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, Ohio, July 31, 2008.

Here you can make out a relic from a vestment of Our Lady and a relic from her sepulchre.

There is a relic here from Saint Paul the Apostle (above, left), and one from Saint Joseph!

Saint Magnus, the jailer of Saint Bonosa who was converted by Saint Bonosa and was martyred with her.

Sharon had to go to the Trail Blazer to get new batteries for our digital camera. The next sequence of photographs is from the museum on the second floor of the Shrine of the Holy Relics. More photographs of the relics follow thereafter.

The habits of the Sisters of the Precious Blood.

Various artifacts from the museum.

The desk of one of the Sisters of the Precious Blood.

More artifacts in the museum.

Another display of habits.

A statue of our dear Blessed Mother.

Look at these treasures!

Self-explanatory.

Behold! This is what our sins did to Our Divine Redeemer. This is how much He loves us!

Our Lady of Grace, pray for us.

A display of habits and hand missals.

Another view.

A bed of one of the Sisters of the Precious Blood.

For those who read German! Saint Anthony, pray for us.

A marionette Nativity scene.

Infant of Prague, have mercy on us!

Communion wafer presses.

This should be of interest to Mrs. Anonymous.

Irons.

Behold the wood of the Cross.

Pope Leo XIII. Vivat Christus Rex!

Pope Saint Pius X. To restore all things in Christ.

Look at the bells.

All types of Holy Cards and Missals and prayer books.

Bambino Gesu.

For Mrs. Anonymous and her sister.

Imagine the vestments and habits that were sewn on this machine.

Three of the Sisters here are playing baseball. I hope that that they were not Yankees' fans.

Saint Catherine Laboure, pray for us!

In the hallway of the Shrine of the Holy Relics.

On a ceiling in the Shrine of the Holy Relics.

Back to the relics. Use your zoom feature again to try to identify some of the relics of the saints.

Pope Saint Pius X, pray for us!

You can see that there is a relic of Saint Clare of Assisi in this reliquary.

Father Junipero Serra, O.F.M., pray for us!

The relics of Saint Peregrine, the patron of those who suffer from cancer, can be seen in the upper right.

Pope Saint Leo the Great, pray for us. Saint Hedwig, pray for us.

The relics of the Venerable Rose Philippine Duchesne can be seen here.

Saint John Baptist de la Salle, pray for us.

Amazing, isnt't it?

Stained glass windows in the Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, Ohio, July 31, 2008.

We will pick this up with part 2 later today, the Feast of Saints Protus and Hyacinth!

I hope that you have found the photographs taken in the Shrine of the Holy Relics to be inspiring.

 

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!

 

Viva Cristo Rey! Vivat Christus Rex!

Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!

 

Saint Joseph, Patron of Departing Souls, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saints Protus and Hyacinth, pray for us.

See also: A Litany of Saints

Isn't time to pray a Rosary now?