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Many of these dubious relics originally came with forged authenticating documents, which were actually altered Xerox photocopies of documents issued by the office of Nicolaus Ferrante, Postulator General of the Redemptorists. Postulator Ferrante's office had been in charge of the canonization of St. John Neumann. Because the Center for the Cause of the Canonization of St. John Neumann was based in Philadelphia PA, documents issued by Postulator Nicolaus Ferrante authenticating the relics of St. John Neumann were easy to come by in the mid 1970's. Those documents were then altered, usually by the removal of one of the lines in the document, allowing for two spaces - in which the various names of apostles, great saints, or other sacred objects, were written in by hand in Latin. Today, counterfeit papers may be made on ink jet, or laser printers. Customarily, documents of authenticity were printed on fine paper, using a printing press. Such old documents may be very fine in quality. A high percentage of the Ferrante relics for sale are frauds.
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A typical fake Ferrante relic. For more information
on these relics please read
Fake relics and Father LeBlanc
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