True Cross Relic

[Ranulfus]

So, I have this cloth that was touched on a reliquary(with thick glass, almost intact) in which the True Cross was in. Is it a 3rd class relic now? I mean it wasn’t that close the true cross, there was a half an inch gap between. Is it a 3rd class or nah? Just wondering

 

[Vico]

So, I have this cloth that was touched on a reliquary(with thick glass, almost intact) in which the True Cross was in. Is it a 3rd class relic now? I mean it wasn’t that close the true cross, there was a half an inch gap between. Is it a 3rd class or nah? Just wondering

What is a relic?
A first class relic is a part of the body of a person who has been canonized or beatified by the Church. A second class relic is an object which belonged to the person during life. And a third class relic is anything that has been touched to the body of the saint or blessed.

By Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J., Fr. Hardon Archives - Catholic Questions and Answers

 

[deprofundis89]

I guess you can keep it as a sort of a 3rd class relic or more as a remembrance of the True Cross on which Our Lord died for us

Although I do remember many years ago, a priest once telling me that since I touched the rosary to the glass case in which the body of St Catherine Laboure was, the rosary became a 3rd class relic even if it did not touch the body directly and only the outer glass case.