Jul 15, 2010 / 01:18 am
Relics of Blessed Mother Teresa are scheduled to visit several cities across the Midwest this weekend, as part of a tour of the United States and Canada. The tour is being held in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the sister's birth on August 26.
The relics are in the care of the Missionaries of Charity, the religious order founded by Mother Teresa, and include her sandals, crucifix and rosary, as well as a lock of her hair and drops of her blood contained in reliquaries.
The tour has already traveled through Boston and Baltimore, among other cities, and is scheduled to make stops in Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota in the coming days.
On Friday, the relics will arrive in Peoria, Illinois. They will be enshrined during a noon Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral, which will be celebrated by Bishop Daniel Jenky.