For 40 years, Mark Loren has owned his Fort Myers jewelry shop.

"We work on a lot of engagement rings, redesigning a lot of pieces for clients who are coming in, necklaces, pendants," Loren said.

Of all the jewelry he's worked on in his four decades, this October, he took on one project that was unlike any other.

"It was the first time I've ever worked on reliquaries like that before," Loren said.

"They were a mess; they really looked like garbage," Sister Mary said.

Sister Mary lived at Church of the Ascension on Fort Myers Beach with a group of cloistered nuns. That is, until Hurricane Ian destroyed the church and their belongings.

"We saw the water rise until it was over the wall, over our enclosure wall, which is 8 feet high," Sister Mary said. "All of the relics that were in the

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