Best Contact Relic

Iron chains said to have bound the apostle Peter during his Roman and Jerusalem imprisonments are venerated at the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, Italy.

Walking staff attributed to the Prophet Muhammad (570–632), part of the Sacred Trusts collection assembled by Ottoman sultans and displayed at Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul.

A cloth bearing a supposed imprint of Christ's face, traditionally associated with a woman named Veronica; the Vatican's version has been venerated in St. Peter's Basilica since the medieval period.

A wooden staff venerated as belonging to the prophet Moses, housed among the Sacred Relics in the Holy Relics Chamber of Topkapi Palace, Istanbul.

A plaster cast impression venerated as bearing the Prophet Muhammad's footprint, preserved in the Sacred Relics Chamber of Topkapi Palace, Istanbul.

Early medieval iron bell associated with St. Patrick (5th century), one of the oldest surviving ecclesiastical objects in Ireland, housed in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

7th-century Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet pectoral cross discovered in St. Cuthbert's tomb at Durham in 1827, now displayed in the cathedral treasury.

A stone bowl venerated as belonging to the patriarch Abraham, preserved in the Sacred Relics Chamber of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey.

Medieval Irish crozier venerated as St. Patrick's staff and one of Ireland's most sacred objects, publicly burned in Dublin in 1538 during the Protestant Reformation.

A fine linen cloth in Manoppello, Italy, bearing a facial image venerated as the Holy Face of Christ; the cloth has been in the Capuchin church there since the early 17th century.

A Byzantine-style cloth icon of Christ's face brought to Laon, France, from Constantinople in 1249 by Bishop Jacques Pantaléon, later Pope Urban IV, and still held in Laon Cathedral.