Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (June 2008)

The Holy Umbilical Cord is a first order Catholic relic (that which is composed of a body part) of Christ. Christian teaching generally states that Christ was assumed into heaven corporeally. Therefore the only parts of his body available for veneration are parts he had lost prior—hair, blood, fingernails, milk teeth, his prepuce and the umbilicus remaining from his birth.

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Relics
• The Latter Rain page on Relics
• "The True Cross"

This Christianity-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.