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Quick question, If I would touch my Rosary to the Reliquary containing a First Class Relic, would it then become a Third Class Relic? Or does it have to actually come in contact with the First Class Relic (a piece of bone per say)
 
Jacob21 said:
Quick question, If I would touch my Rosary to the Reliquary containing a First Class Relic, would it then become a Third Class Relic? Or does it have to actually come in contact with the First Class Relic (a piece of bone per say)
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I’m not an expert but I think it would have to come into contact with the actual Relic, not the Reliquary… I could be wrong though.
Hopefully someone that knows for sure can answer so we can both know.
 
Touching to the reliquary is fine, most third class relics are simply cloth laid onto the tomb or grave of a canonized Saint.
 
Filioque said:
Touching to the reliquary is fine, most third class relics are simply cloth laid onto the tomb or grave of a canonized Saint.
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Not according to the Catholic Encyclopedia (the 1991 printed edition) which states that a third class relic is an object (normally a cloth but not only a cloth) which has been in contact with a first class relic (not a second class relic nor what the first class relic is encased/entombed in).

This is also the definition of a third class in the Modern Catholic Dictionary.

It is also the definition contained in The Catholic Source Book: a Comprehensive Collection of Information About the Catholic Church.

None of these publications say contact with anything other than direct contact with a first class relic makes a third class relic.
 
Your rosary would become a third class relic,since it would be impossible to get the relic out of the theca ( that round metal container).
 
CatholicLife said:
Your rosary would become a third class relic,since it would be impossible to get the relic out of the theca ( that round metal container).
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Thats not correct according to the three sources I quoted in my earlier post.
If you maintain it would become a third class relic then please site documentation supporting your view.
 
I do think if the current rules are as Thistle quotes than the good St. Gregory’s description of the practices of his time would be secondary to the current law. Having studied in a pre-Vatican II setting, I’m not current. However I’ll see if there are any other pronouncements in the current legislation of the Church.
 
Filioque said:
I do think if the current rules are as Thistle quotes than the good St. Gregory’s description of the practices of his time would be secondary to the current law. Having studied in a pre-Vatican II setting, I’m not current. However I’ll see if there are any other pronouncements in the current legislation of the Church.
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To be frank it actually doesn’t concern me one way or the other how a third class relic is defined. Its just that I have not seen anything other than the three (modern) definitions I quoted above. I would be interested if there is any other current documentation on this subject.
 
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