She is also wearing the bloodstained St. Michael pendant Charlie Kirk wore when he was gunned down.
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Erika Kirk now wears a St. Michael pendant around her neck, the same one that hung from her husband’s throat when he was gunned down; in the fissure of the cross remains a dried remnant of Charlie Kirk’s blood, according to an interview she gave to the NY Times.
America hero Charlie Kirk was being desperately treated by paramedics when they ripped the pendant off of Charlie Kirk’s neck as they futilely attempted to stop the bleeding that gushed from the wound on his throat, according to The New York Times. He was declared dead at a hospital in Utah.
ERIKA KIRK @MrsErikaKirk NOW WEARS THE BLOOD STAINED MEDAL OF ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL from her husband @charliekirk11
— Catholics for Catholics 🇺🇲 (@CforCatholics) September 21, 2025
The fight and flag has been passed on.
"Around her neck was the pendant of St. Michael that her husband was wearing when he was shot. The medics had ripped… pic.twitter.com/GddaKzOAV2
Still, on Sunday, Erika Kirk told a crowd of 90,000 who attended the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona for her husband’s funeral that she forgave his killer. She added that she that is what we’re called to do as Christians.
“I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do,” Kirk told the crowd of mourners. “The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love. Love for our enemies, and love for those who persecute us.”
She remembered that Charlie Kirk’s deepest vocation was reaching young men who felt confused, irate, and without purpose. “Charlie wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life,” she said, adding that his death on Sept. 10 should invigorate a revival rather than violence.
Erika Kirk, says to the patriots honoring her husband, that she forgives the man that killed Charlie.
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“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” “I forgive him” pic.twitter.com/VXiJc4Kdao
Kirk, Newsmax reported, recalled a speech her husband delivered at AmericaFest 2023, where he spoke, no notes needed, about his willingness to follow God’s calling. He quoted Isaiah 6:8: “Here I am, Lord. Send me.”
“After Charlie finished, I met him backstage and told him there is so much power in those words, because when you say, ‘Here I am, Lord, use me,’ God will take you up on that,” she said. “And he did it with Charlie. Eleven days ago, God accepted that total surrender and called him to His side.”
Kirk said she has found strength in the Lord’s Prayer — “Thy will be done” — and in seeing her husband’s body in the hospital.
“Even in death, I could see the man I love,” she said. “On his lips was the faintest smile, and that told me he didn’t suffer. One moment Charlie was arguing and debating on campus, fighting for the gospel and truth, and then he blinked — and saw his Savior in paradise.”
She added that the days since her husband’s death have revealed mercy and faith. “After Charlie’s assassination, we didn’t see violence, rioting, or revolution. Instead, we saw revival,” she said. “We saw people open a Bible for the first time in a decade, people pray for the first time since they were children, and some attend church for the very first time. That is what Charlie always prayed for in this country.”
She urged believers to help those who are new to faith and cautioned that temptations would grow in this time of testing. “Being a follower of Christ is not easy. Jesus said we would be persecuted, and Charlie knew that and happily carried his cross all the way to the end,” she said.
Erika Kirk also spoke about her marriage, saying it was nurtured via love notes, faith, and mutual service. “Every Saturday, Charlie wrote me a note, always ending with, ‘Please let me know how I can better serve you as a husband,’” she said. “He perfectly understood God’s role for a Christian husband, a man who leads so that he can serve.”
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