Padre Pío Relic?

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Hi all, recently for my birthday, my friend had given me a rosary ring with a picture of St. Pío. On the back of his portrait, there is a piece of brown cloth which my friend says is a second-class relic. He was recently at the Vatican and had gotten it there. Do they really sell second-class relics at the Vatican?
 
The relic is almost certainly a piece of cloth touched to St. Pio’s tomb. Which by the way would make it a third-class relic, not a second-class relic. A second-class relic would be a piece of St. Pio’s actual clothing and those are not sold.

And yes, such medals and rings with third-class relics (not second-class relics) are sold, everywhere. including gift shops associated with the Vatican. It’s fine.

I’m not sure the Vatican itself actually is selling any souvenirs, there is a company allowed to sell the official Pope rosaries and such out of a shop near by.
 
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Yes, I edited my post realizing that it is likely a third-class relic.

Nobody puts second class relics into rosary rings and such. If you get one at all it is on a prayer card or similar while the person is in the beatification process. There are old prayer cards of Padre Pio on ebay that have second class relics purportedly, and those might be real. I have similar old prayer cards with second-class relics of Ven. Fulton Sheen and Blessed Solanus Casey. They aren’t sold but are given away by the guilds seeking to canonize the person, usually you make a donation when you ask for one.
 
Thank you very much. I was a little bit puzzled when I was told it was a second-class relic. I was somewhat doubtful that the cloth could be something he actually wore. Thanks for your clarification.
 
I remember seeing a documentary where it was said that Padre Pio went through dozens of cloth towels that had blood stains from the stigmata that he suffered. They are kept somewhere in Italy. One mother borrowed one and kept it for weeks while praying for her son to awake from a coma. The boy awoke and told about being outside his body and guided by Padre Pio. My thoughts were: ok nothing surprising about that, but wait… who can ‘borrow’ these towels, what is the process and where exactly are they kept? your documentary didn’t get into the most important part!!
 
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It’s probably the sort of thing where if you have to ask, you’re not in the “in-crowd” enough to receive one.

I’m sure Padre Pio would be right there if you prayed to him faithfully without a relic though. He probably thinks the relic thing is a little silly.

I was thinking about it when his relics were at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and in order to see them the line was out the door of the Cathedral and about a block down the side street. Padre Pio would probably say all those people should be going into the church to see Jesus at Mass and not lining up to see his relics. The weirdest part is that a church right by Penn Station there has relics of Padre Pio all year round, which you can usually see with no line. They don’t publicize it a lot but the relics are there.
 
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Of course out of humility he would say that. I am sure people have received miracles through his intercession without a relic in hand.
 
What is at the back of this relic? Can you take a photo of the back.
Alternatively take it to your Bishop, who should be able to read the Latin that will be inscribed on a little paper seal. And the writing surrounding it.
 
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Apologies if it is not clear. The writing is in latin, stating “Ex Indumentis”. I am aware that this means “from the clothing”, but was skeptical.
 
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