It's not hard to get a saint through airport security, says Franciscan Father Alessandro Ratti. Father Ratti, a Conventional Franciscan friar from the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, travels throughout the world with a first-class relic of the saint -- a floating rib bone, taken from St. Anthony's body when it was exhumed for scientific study in 1981. Father Ratti said that visiting the saint's devotees across continents is like a family reunion.

"It's not a problem," he said. "Absolutely. Nobody would hurt St. Anthony." Father Ratti transports the reliquary in a small suitcase, which remains by his side at all times. He never ships it or allows it to go in an airplane's cargo hold, though he's not concerned about losing the relic. After all, St. Anthony is the patron saint of lost items.