In the Catholic Church there are three classes of relics.
The first class is body parts of a saint.
The second class includes things that belonged to saints, objects they have used or surrounded themselves with.
The third class relic is an object that touched the body of a saint.
To create third class relics, small holes are drilled in the tombs of saints. The objects are lowered through the holes and once they touch the corpse, they are no longer everyday and mundane; they become sacred.
Meteorites, boulders, rocks, stones
What stories does a rock whisper?
For over two years, I have been collecting rock stories. Many of them belong to folk people, such as my ancestors: collectively woven myths that gave ground to caring rituals of growing connections to the land, territory and each other. Over time these stories fluctuate, gently passed through generations.
The longer I indulge my obsession with rock stories, the more I begin to believe that a rock is not mute at all, but perhaps, the most excellent storyteller of them all.
