Relics Explained: Why your dead body is still precious (link below) Relics are something that inquirers and those outside the Church often find strange, disturbing, or even unacceptable. But the truth is that death itself is the scandal, not our reverence for the body that God has sanctified. The Christian understanding of the body is inseparable from the promise of the resurrection, and the relics of the saints are a reminder that even in death, the body remains connected to the person and can continue to be a vessel of God's grace.