[CarrotAndStick]

Yes. But just like the Jesus relics, they somehow become tools of the religion.

[Aquinasfan]

Yes. But just like the Jesus relics, they somehow become tools of the religion.

2 Kings 13:21

Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

Acts 19:11-13

God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.

At times, God performs miracles in association with the relics of holy men and women, making these items worthy of veneration (not worship).