Mark 5:28

Verse 28. Touch his garment. Almighty God is pleased to give occasionally to the relics and clothes of his pious and faithful servants, a degree of virtue. See Acts 5, and 19, where the very shadow of Saint Peter, and the handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched the body of Saint Paul, and were brought to the sick, cured their diseases, and banished the wicked spirits. See S. Chrysostom, Tirinus. 5. contra Gent. in vit. Babylœ. S. Basil saith: “he that toucheth the bone of a martyr, receiveth in some degree holiness of the grace or virtue that is therein. Bas. in Psalm cxv.