I forgot a couple of alleged first-class relics. The crown of thorns and a nail from the passion are stored in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The Sudarium of Oviedo is a supposed burial headcloth held in the Cathedral of San Salvador in Spain. This would appear to conflict with the famed Shroud. Two different items claim to be the Mandylion or Image of Edessa.
There's also this concept of a third-class relic, where you just touch an item to a first-class relic and it's somehow holy, too. I've probably missed some other supposedly holy junk here, but none of it has provenance back to Jesus. There are endless little old shitty pieces of wood that claim to be part of the True Cross.
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