Include the Veil of Saint Veronica and the Holy Lance, preserved at Saint Peter's; the Title of the Cross, a large portion of the True Cross, one of the Sacred Nails, and two of the Thorns, at Santa Croce; the Holy Pillar, at Saint Prassede; and the Holy Stairs, near the Lateran. Besides these large relics of the Passion, the Basilica of Santa Croce has another collection containing two of the Sacred Thorns, the finger of Saint Thomas which touched Our Lord's wounds, and a reliquary supposed to have belonged to Saint Gregory the Great.
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