With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to investigate the online sale of some purported relics of Carlo Acutis, who already ...

Relics are divided into three classes&#first-class relics are parts of the saint’s body; second class, clothing which the saint wore; third class, anything the saint used or touched.

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, ... but I don’t think I’d ever want to own a first-class relic.

“First class relics are the body or any fragment of a body of a saint, such as a bone or hair. Second class relics are anything a saint owns such as an item of clothing or a book.

Catholic Church denounces online sale of relics of first millennial saint An anonymous seller had put up for online auction some supposedly authenticated locks of Acutis' hair that were fetching ...