Newsroom (12/10/2025 15:19, Gaudium Press) After more than a year traveling throughout Mexico, the first-class relic of St. Jude Thaddeus will return to Rome, Italy. During this time in Mexico, around 22 million devotees venerated the relic up close.
More than 85 Mexican dioceses were visited.
During the pilgrimage, the relic was present at various liturgical ceremonies, including priestly ordinations. It also visited prisons, hospitals, nursing homes, and migrant shelters. Cathedrals and churches in hundreds of parishes briefly housed the relic, attracting thousands of faithful.
The relic arrived in Mexico on July 29, 2024, and traveled through more than 85 dioceses in the country. Since December 9, it has been in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City, where a farewell Mass will be celebrated on December 11.
One of the arms of the apostle of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The remains of Saint Jude Thaddeus are usually kept in St. Peter’s Basilica, in a tomb shared with Saint Simon, another of the 12 apostles, under the high altar of the chapel dedicated to Saint Joseph, on one side of the large central baldachin of the temple. The relic that is on pilgrimage through Mexico is one of his arms.
Saint Jude Thaddeus was a first cousin of Our Lord Jesus Christ and one of the twelve Apostles. He is believed to have been martyred in Beirut decades after the death and resurrection of Christ. According to Catholic tradition, his body was transferred to a tomb in St. Peter’s Basilica centuries after his death. His arm was later removed and placed in a reliquary in the shape of a priest’s hand. (EPC)
Compiled by Dominic Joseph
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