Relics-different classes

[srfnolen]

Can someone explain how our sacramentals become relics? Currently St. Maria
Goretti is on a pilgrimage through our area. Our prayer group will be going to veneration. We were encouraged to bring rosaries for example to become relics. According to what we were told. they will be classified as 3rd class relics. How many classes of relics are there and what are the qualifications for each one?

Thank you
Srfnolen

 

[edward_george]

There are three classes of relics:

First Class relics are the actual bodily remains of a saint. The True Cross is also ranked as a First Class relic.

Second Class relics are items, usually clothing, worn or used by the saint.

Third Class relics are items touched to First Class relics, like rosaries or medals, or even bits of cloth that are mounted to certain kinds of medals.

-ACEGC

 

[Mystrx]

There are three classes of relics:

First Class relics are the actual bodily remains of a saint. The True Cross is also ranked as a First Class relic.

Second Class relics are items, usually clothing, worn or used by the saint.

Third Class relics are items touched to First Class relics, like rosaries or medals, or even bits of cloth that are mounted to certain kinds of medals.

-ACEGC

This is correct.

 

[Jeannie52]

Can someone explain how our sacramentals become relics? Currently St. Maria
Goretti is on a pilgrimage through our area. Our prayer group will be going to veneration. We were encouraged to bring rosaries for example to become relics. According to what we were told. they will be classified as 3rd class relics. How many classes of relics are there and what are the qualifications for each one?

Thank you
Srfnolen

Thank you so much for asking this question!!

 

[Jeannie52]

There are three classes of relics:

First Class relics are the actual bodily remains of a saint. The True Cross is also ranked as a First Class relic.

Second Class relics are items, usually clothing, worn or used by the saint.

Third Class relics are items touched to First Class relics, like rosaries or medals, or even bits of cloth that are mounted to certain kinds of medals.

-ACEGC

This is wonderful! A good friend of mine from our Church spoke about her and her husband’s trip to Rome recently. She showed us some medals that she said are Third Class Relics, she explained what Third Class Relics means but I didn’t grasp it at the time. This information goes right in to my heart and soul. So divinely meaningful!

 

[Lost_Sheep]

Can someone explain how our sacramentals become relics? Currently St. Maria
Goretti is on a pilgrimage through our area. Our prayer group will be going to veneration. We were encouraged to bring rosaries for example to become relics. According to what we were told. they will be classified as 3rd class relics. How many classes of relics are there and what are the qualifications for each one?

Thank you
Srfnolen

The St. Maria Goretti Tour made a stop in Virginia yesterday and I was able to attend. :extrahappy:

We were allowed to approach her casket and were told that anything we touched to the casket (rosaries, prayer cards, etc.) became Third Class relics.

 

[Jeannie52]

God is so good!

 

[Brendan]

On a humorous note, on a mission trip to Tanzania, our group spent a night at a Catholic hostel in Dar Es Salaam.

I was given the room that Pope Saint John Paul II stayed in during his visit there in 1990

One of the students asked if that made the toilet there a 2nd Class relic.

My response was “I’m not too sure, but I get to sit on the same ‘cathedra’ and make my own pronouncements”