From reassembling the bodily relics of st. Gemma Galgani.

I do not wish to deceive: Letter from Gemma Galgani to Msgr. Volpi, 1899

  As a child,
  I knew grief as a bank
  in the business of salvation.
  It was there I held all

  my accounts--Mother said,
  You are never to touch them
  to buy something for yourself.

  But what tears I spent
  on a china doll's shattering,
  the loss of a hat.
  When she died, I'd saved nothing,

  not even one sorrow,
  to buy-off the few sins
  mama forgot to confess.

  If she burns bright in Purgatory
  that is my fault.
  But Jesus is merciful. Even now,
  if I turn my head,

  I hear the Lord saying
  again and again,

  Suffering's the currency that counts.

  Monsignor,
  come see the blood coins
  Christ minted in my hands,

  tell me: Are they counterfeit or not?