""The people that found them didn't know what they were," said Father Michael Nasser of the seminary. "They weren't in a typical container.""
""One of our officers who was actually out here at one of these construction sites and doing some traffic, and he was approached by a member of the seminary who thought they recovered some kind of drugs or some type of illegal substances," Det. Lt. Frank Didomizio of the Yonkers Police Department told the station."
""We got to meet the K-9 units who came out here for a special prayer and blessing and allowed us to thank them for all they do for us at the seminary and the whole community," Nasser told WABC."
A worker at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers discovered objects that were initially thought to be illegal narcotics. Police and K-9 units responded, but the items proved to be first-degree relics of Saint Raphael of Brooklyn, consisting of body fragments. The relics had fallen from a hole in a plastic bag while being transported for photography and cataloguing and suffered no apparent damage. The relics reinforce a spiritual connection to Saint Raphael, who died in Brooklyn in 1915 and was the first Orthodox bishop consecrated on American soil.
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