Saint's arm bone in Chicago

An arm bone from the United States' first Roman Catholic saint has been moved to a new temporary home in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.

Parishioners at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii gathered Sunday to welcome the relic of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian-born nun who ministered to the poor and sick in Chicago.

Mother Cabrini started dozens of hospitals, schools and orphanages throughout the country. In Chicago she founded the now-shuttered Columbus Hospital, where she died in 1917.

While Mother Cabrini's heart is kept in Italy and there are dozens of her other relics worldwide, the humerus bone is Chicago's most significant.

The relic was displaced about a year ago from a shrine on the property of Columbus Hospital, which is being renovated into a condominium complex.