On 15 May 2023, which marked the Feast Day of San Isidro Labrador and the culmination of the 400th Anniversary of the Canonization of San Isidro Labrador, the San Isidro Labrador Parish – Makiling was among the 17 recipients of relics granted by Cardinal Osoro during the solemn Eucharist Celebration at the Real Colegiata Basílica de San Isidro in Madrid, Spain. The relic was personally received by Fr. Francis Eugene Fadul on behalf of the parish and as a pilgrim.

The relics, ex corpore (from the body), consist of pieces of the saint’s skin attached to the canvas that wrapped the body. This canvas, given by Queen Maria Cristina, was restored for the opening of the sarcophagus and subsequent forensic anatomical study conducted on the laborer’s body, the results of which were presented in November 2022. During the restoration, the delegate for the Causes of Saints in Madrid found and analyzed small insects, dried flowers, pins, pebbles, and dry human skin. Alberto Fernández, the episcopal delegate for the Causes of the Saints, observed that while it is not usually permitted to extract relics to protect the bodies, especially in the case of San Isidro, which has remained incorrupt for almost nine centuries, in this instance, the relics were detached.

Thus, 17 reliquaries, small silver thecas, were made to contain the relics. According to Fernández, all of them are accounted for, with no more available, which is another example of the “exceptionality” of the finding. The Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Carlos Osoro, assigned these relics to parishes and brotherhoods related to the patron saint of farmers. Two (2) of these reliquaries were entrusted to the Philippines, specifically to the care of the San Isidro Labrador Parish of Makiling, Calamba City, Laguna, and Pulilan, Bulacan.