**first class relics....second-class relics**
What’s third class? Shadows? Kinda hard to box them up, huh?
Rev. 6:9: “..under the altar the souls of them THAT WERE SLAIN for the testimony of God...”.
And verse 10 says they cried out for the Lord to “judge and avenge our blood..”. Able’s blood cried up to God from the ground. You see, the martyrs blood was spilled on earth, but since they were slain in the service of God, it also recalls what God commanded in Leviticus 4:25, where the blood of the sin offering is poured into the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering.
**To know the real Church history fully..**
For church operation, AND doctrine, all you need for church history is Acts through Revelation.
**read the Fathers of the Church.**
I’ve read enough to see that they don’t need to add anything more than what foundation has already been laid: The apostles and prophets; Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone.
If you choose to add vain traditions of men, then go ahead, knock yourself out.
I am not interest in how you interpret "under the altar" in Rev. 9. The Holy Catholic Apostolic Church had placed relics under altars, physically, since probably before St. John wrote the Apocalypse; what your sect does is of not consequence to me.
Your desire to be ignorant of the history of the Holy Church is pitiful.