Cardinal Luis Tagle receives relic of Blessed Fulton Sheen

Cardinal Luis Tagle received a first-class relic of Blessed Fulton Sheen during the beatification Mass in St. Louis. James Fulton Engstrom, the teenager whose 2010 miraculous healing led to Sheen's beatification, presented the relic to Tagle, who served as the main celebrant.

The relic is Sheen's mandible, the bone that forms the chin and lower jaw. Bishop Louis Tylka of the Diocese of Peoria, Sheen's home diocese, said the choice of the jawbone is significant because of Sheen's ability to preach, teach, and communicate the faith.

Engstrom was declared healed through Sheen's intercession after he was clinically dead for 61 minutes following his birth. According to Church proclamations, the infant began breathing and recovered from medical abnormalities that doctors could not explain. Msgr. Jason Gray, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation, noted that those healed in the miracle often participate in the beatification process.