The piece of fabric, which is frayed at the edges, and black and white in color, is maybe one inch wide, and a centimeter in height. If you didn’t know to whom it had belonged, or if you knew and saw no significance in the fact, you could mistake it for a scrap that someone had forgotten to throw away. But to me it is an amazing little artifact, a relic of course, a thing that has a certain holiness or sanctity merely because it came in contact with a particular saint when that saint was alive and was walking on the earth.