Gemma galgani relic

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I really want a Gemma galgani relic and I was wondering how one obtains a first class relic of a saint. She wasn’t technically a passionist but she lived into their charism. Can anyone help me out and direct me to who I need to contact or how I go about getting one.
 
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If you visit her tomb in lucca, Italy you can get relics. I have one.
 
First class relics are not generally things an individual owns. Yes, it may happen, but it’s more of an exceptional case, I’d say. Second class, maybe. Third class, sure.
 
Would love to have one of these! ❤️ If you ever go again- let me know~ ☺️
 
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I have a 1st Class Relic of her and about five other Passionist saints. I received it decades ago. It’s very hard to get relics today due to people selling them on the internet. That’s a sacrilege.
 
Why not? I have about 40 of them. Been procuring them since I was in grammar school, back in the Dark Ages. When I die, they are going to a Carmelite Monastery in a nearby city.
 
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First class relics are not generally things an individual owns. Yes, it may happen, but it’s more of an exceptional case, I’d say. Second class, maybe. Third class, sure.
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I have three of them — first class relics of St John Neumann, St Elizabeth Ann Seton, and St Maria Goretti. They are stored away reverently, as my present living circumstances don’t allow them to be displayed in the way they should be. That time will come one day. I obtained two of them from religious congregations, and a friend gave me the third. All have authentication papers with them.
 
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I stand corrected, then. I was under the impression from someone (I was thinking a priest, but I’m not sure now) that it was generally frowned upon for individuals to have them.
 
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I stand corrected, then. I was under the impression from someone (I was thinking a priest, but I’m not sure now) that it was generally frowned upon for individuals to have them.
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I heard something recently (don’t remember where) that the Church desires that all first class relics be in the hands of competent Church authority. If that is true, it must be a recent change, as it was a priest who gave me the relic of St John Neumann at the Redemptorist church in Philadelphia. I got the relic of St Elizabeth Ann Seton from the convent in Emmitsburg MD for a nominal donation.

I would need to hear this from the Church before I would voluntarily relinquish the relics, and even then, I would turn them over to the FSSP or the SSPX.
 
That was the very first relic I ever procured - St. John Neumann. I was in the 7th grade and the Dominican Sister I had helped me write the letter to the Shrine in Philadelphia to get it.
 
I’m sure that is recent because most of the relics I have were procured from the generalates in Rome of the religious orders the saint belonged to.

If the Vatican frowned upon laity having them, they would not have sent them to me. In fact, I got a few of them from a Vicar General in the Vatican.
 
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You can still get second or third class relics easily, but these days in order to get a first class relic you usually have to know someone personally who has or can get one, or be a priest requesting it for your church.

I’m happy with my second class relics and I like when I can make my own at someone’s tomb. A first class is too much responsibility for me.
 
Below is an extract (237) from

CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP
AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS

DIRECTORY
ON POPULAR PIETY AND THE LITURGY

PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES

Vatican City
December 2001

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An adequate pastoral instruction of the faithful about the use of relics will not overlook:

“— ensuring the authenticity of the relics exposed for the veneration of the faithful; where doubtful relics have been exposed for the veneration of the faithful, they should be discreetly withdrawn with due pastoral prudence;

“— preventing undue dispersal of relics into small pieces, since such practice is not consonant with due respect for the human body; the liturgical norms stipulate that relics must be ‘of a sufficient size as make clear that they are parts of the human body’;

“— admonishing the faithful to resist the temptation to form collections of relics; in the past, this practice has had some deplorable consequences;

“— preventing any possibility of fraud, trafficking, or superstition.
UNQUOTE

This is the link for the entire Vatican document:
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c..._20020513_vers-direttorio_en.html#Chapter Six
 
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Write a letter to sisters or visit sanctuary in Lucca

www.santagemma.eu

Monastero Santa Gemma Galgani

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www.santagemma.eu www.santagemma.eu

Via di Tiglio, 271,
55100 Lucca LU
Italy
 
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