Parishioners and other interested people can take a virtual tour of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City with Archbishop Timothy Dolan and hear him discuss relics housed in the church.

"We're still here in our spiritual home of our Catholic family — the church," Dolan said in the YouTube video. "I've been giving you an open house tour of our family home."

In a previous video, Dolan had spoken about St. Therese, also known as The Little Flower, and St. Teresa of Calcutta, also known as Mother Teresa.

"One of the ways we have been kind of bringing home and making the saints real is what we call relics," Dolan said in the video. "It's a fancy word for a reminder or a connection. Most of us have relics like I still have my dad's medals from the Navy."

Dolan said his father's Navy medals remind him of his dad and keep his memories close to him.

"My mom wears my dad's wedding ring, she had it refitted when my dad died," Dolan said in the video. "That's a relic in a way, it's a reminder of him."

At the church, there are relics for Mother Teresa and The Little Flower.

"Here we have a relic of St. Therese of Lisieux, The Little Flower," Dolan said, gesturing to the relic. "It may be a piece of her garment or it may be a chip of her bone. It might be a lock of her hair. I don't know exactly what it is, but we have a record of it. It brings us closer to The Little Flower, making our prayers all the more sincere, personal and fervent."

Dolan then moved over to another relic, which he said was of Mother Teresa.

"We also have a relic of our beloved Mother Teresa of Calcutta," Dolan said in the video. "This would be the relic of Mother Teresa. People are able to feel closer, like when people go to a cemetery. We just feel a bond with the person whose memory we love and cherish."

Dolan said that's what relics do. He also said that not every church has relics from the saints.

"But, every church has relics in the altar," Dolan said in the video. "We call this the altar stone. They would be relics, usually little, tiny particles of the bone of early martyrs of the church. Martyrs are those who gave their lives rather than deny their faith in Jesus."

Dolan said those relics in the altar stone give churchgoers a connection with the earliest church and to remind members of the fidelity owed to Jesus.