1. The display case on the back wall of this Sacred Heart Relic Chapel includes some brief information about relics and under what circumstances a relic may be displayed for public veneration.
2. This collection includes (as of October, 2002) 945 reliquaries and 1175 relics. The single reliquary containing the most relics in the collection is #865, the large oval to the right of the St. Gaspar statue in the St. Gaspar Shrine; it contains seventy relics. This was Fr. Francis de Sales Brunner’s personal reliquary.
3. 95% of the relics in the Maria Stein collection are first class relics; that is, they are from the body of the saint (usually part of a bone). Second class relics are things (e.g., clothing) that the saint used. Third class relics are things that are touched to saint or to a first class relic of a saint.
4. This is the second largest collection of relics open for veneration by the public in the United States.