This Christmas, a Morton Grove church is celebrating the arrival of two Catholic holy relics, including one from St. Luke, a key figure in Christianity and author of a gospel that tells the story of Jesus’ birth. It also recently added a relic, a holy object which is frequently a bone or garment of a saint, of St. Juan Diego just before the Dec. 12 feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who .
Christmas Eve this year is also the fourth and final Sunday of Advent. The day’s Gospel reading, from St Luke, describes the Annunciation. The Angel Gabriel appears to Mary to tell her that she will bear a son, Jesus: “Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.”