Saint Anthony's Chapel

Website:
https://saintanthonyschapel.org/

Telephone Number:
(412) 999-4401

Location:
1704 Harpster Street, Pittsburgh PA 15212

Hours:

Description:

The relics housed in the chapel currently number over 5,000 and are housed in over 800 relic cases (reliquaries) of various sizes. Furthermore, there are 525 authentic certificates which give the date, name and seal of a Bishop or postulator of the saints’ causes, attesting to the authenticity of these relics.

Some of the documents are over two hundred years old. Among the oldest are those dated: August 12, 1716 (bones of St. Frances of Rome No. 236); October 6,1735 (No. 442); August 12, 1736 (No. 425); April 24, 1744 (St. Philip Neri No. 294); January 17, 1753 (No. 426); April 7, 1762 (No. 357); February 3, 1777 (No. 351); January 3,1786 (St. Stephen, 1st Martyr No. 300); October 25, 1796 (No. 229). (Note: A certificate number that is given without a specific saint listed refers to a reliquary that contains many relics.)

Among the collection are relics of the apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins, widows and saintly penitents, as well as particles of the True Cross. The location of the larger, accessible relics can be positively identified, but it is more difficult to pinpoint the location of many of the relics because of the inaccessibility of the reliquaries.