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 . 3
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).
“The people that found them didn’t know what they were,” said Father Michael Nasser of the seminary. “They weren’t in a typ