EWTN News reports that a vial of JPII's blood will be present for veneration at his beatification this Sunday. When JPII was dying in 2005 a doctor took four vials in case there was a need for a transfusion and now, obviously, the vials are first class relics. One vial will remain at the Vatican, one at Bambino Gesu Hospital and two at a church in Poland.
Relics are classed in one of three ways:
A first-class relic is an actual part of the body.
A second-class relic is something that the person owned or used during his or her life.
A third-class relic is an item that has been touched to a first or second class relic.
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