‘Drugs’ found at NY seminary actually priceless relics of Brooklyn’s Saint Raphael
Story by Shane Galvin • 6h
It was a divine “drug bust.”
A worker at an Orthodox seminary in Yonkers found a cache of “drugs” — but soon discovered the priceless objects were of a “holy” different nature.
Drug-sniffing dogs swarmed St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary last week when cops were called for possible illegal narcotics on the scenic, tree-covered campus, WABC reported.
A worker at an Orthodox seminary in Yonkers found the priceless objects. Yonkers Police Department
Instead, what they found were first-degree relics — the body or body fragments, such as bone or flesh — of Saint Raphael of Brooklyn, a Syrian immigrant who founded St. Nicholas Cathedral in what is now downtown Brooklyn and was glorified in 2000, according to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).
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