I can’t help but think that Jesus would find this amusing. Worrying about a piece of wood instead of concentrating on the real treasure that he left behind, his words. Now where did I put my golden calf????
Yes, and the relic is almost certainly fake anyway. There used to be enough relics of some saints floating around to make several skeletons of different races and sexes.
The adoration is, of course, directed toward Jesus. We also keep George Washington’s home up, just to remind us of him, do we not? And the sword that belonged to Robert the Bruce? The Magna Carta. The Rosetta Stone. These are bits of the past, treasures to remind us of great men and times. We do not worship any of them, but we honor them.