Holy Umbilical Cord

The Holy Umbilical Cord is a first order Catholic relic (that which is composed of a body part) of Christ. Christian teaching generally states that Christ was assumed into heaven corporeally. Therefore, the only parts of his body available for veneration are parts he had lost prior—hair, blood, fingernails, milk teeth, his prepuce and the umbilicus remaining from his birth. 
==External links==
*Catholic Encyclopedia: Relics
*The Latter Rain page on Relics
*"The True Cross"