So my son comes home from ccd and tells me. .

[cameron_lansing]

janelle:

My RCIA director told us we have a relic in our altar but we don’t know who it is from. Years ago someone wanted to know what it was, but no one could find the paperwork and the original pastor couldn’t remember, as he was quite elderly and his memory was going. They still can’t find the paperwork. I don’t think that invalidates the relic, though.

I would think, from the basis of Church law and normal practice, that the documentation should have been preserved in copy or in summary form within the archives of the chancery of your diocese.

This sort of thing would not normally be maintained at the Vatican.