the relic of the skull of Saint Thomas Aquinas dislodged from its reliquary for its triple jubilee in Toulouse
EXCLUSIVE FRANCE 3 OCCITANIE. Thursday January 26, 2023, at the Dominican convent in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), the relic of the skull of Saint Thomas Aquinas was dislodged from its reliquary in which it had rested since 1974 at the Jacobins. The event marks the beginning of the triple jubilee of the Italian religious.
The moment on this morning of January 26, 2023 within the convent of the dominicans of toulouse (Haute-Garonne) is particularly solemn. The day before, the skull of Saint Thomas Aquinas was named to the Dominican friars of the Province of Toulouse.
Kept since 1974 at Jacobin Convent, it is delicately taken out of its reliquary. Twice censed by Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès, under the liturgical chants of the brothers of the Dominican convent, the relic of the Italian religious of thedominican orderfamous for his theological and philosophical work, is placed on a cushion and put in its new box, created by a created by an artist painter for the occasion.
This event takes place on the occasion of a triple jubilee. In Toulouse, from 2023 to 2025, will be attributed the 800 years of the birth of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the 750 years of his death and his 700 years of his canonization.
Full report this afternoon.