The Treasury also owns numerous antique cloths which were venerated as relics either because they had belonged to saints, or because they had been used to wrap relics, a contact that endowed them with an aura of sanctity.

Among them two fragments of Egyptian cloth (6^th -7^th century) from the robes of Pope Gregory the Great, and three corporals (small altar clothes), dating to the same period. Moreover, the so-called “Apostle’s bags”, five small bags with curved bottoms made of woven palm-leaves and decorated with bands of geometrical patterns, were made in the Palestinian area from the Roman period to the 10^th century.