Feast of the Holy Relics

From Butler's Lives of the Saints, and in Lives of the Saints for Every Day of the Year we read for the 8th November - The Feast of the Holy Relics (before the liturgical calendar was changed under the influence of alleged Freemason Annibale Bugnini) that:

"Protestantism pretends to regard the veneration which the Church pays to the relics of the saints as a sin, and contends that this pious practice is a remnant of paganism. The Council of Trent, on the contrary, has decided that the bodies of the martyrs and other saints, who were living members of Jesus Christ and temples of the Holy Ghost, are to be honoured by the faithful. This decision was based upon the established usage of the earliest days of the church, and upon the teachings of the Fathers and of the Councils. The Council orders, however, that all abuse of this devotion is to be avoided carefully, and forbids any relics to be exposed which have not been approved by the bishops, and these prelates are recommended to instruct the people faithfully in the teaching of the Church on this subject. While we regret, then, the errors of the impious and of heretics, let us profit by the advantages which we gain by hearkening to the voice of the Church".

It is pleasing to note that even in today's Catholic wasteland the recent veneration of the relics of St. Anthony of Padua, that finished in London on All Souls' Day, could attract an estimated quarter of a million people across Britain and the Six Counties.