Harvard asked to return 3rd-century Catholic relic

Harvard University is in the process of returning some of the thousands of Indigenous human remains in its possession to those with cultural, ancestral, or religious ties to them, and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts is asking the university to donate to a local Catholic church a relic of St. Sebastian acquired from an antiquarian bookseller in 2021. Sebastian was a convert and member of the Praetorian Guard martyred circa 288 A.D.
 

 

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