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In the article, the author discusses why inscriptions are special types of monument and how the act of writing graffiti can be a sign of rebellion against impersonal design. Also cited are how writing graffiti showed that someone's presence made a difference in a place, and how the relics of the body and habitual possessions of holy persons like saints served as signs that they lived as humans.

This section offers world news briefs on various issues as of August 25, 2021. It includes a surge in the number of New York citizens accepting help under the pilot program B-HEARD that dispatches mental health workers instead of police to non-violent emergency calls, the launch of an application by the government of France that gives cash to 18-year old individuals for cultural purposes, and the return of relics from Saint Queen Ketevan by the Indian government to Georgia.

The article focuses on the incorrupt relic of the severed right forearm of St. Francis Xavier which was brought by Angèle Regnier, the co-founder of Ottawa's Catholic Christian Outreach who flew across Canada for a tour.