Alyssa Johnson

Crowds gathered at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church this week as word of the possible miracle spread.

The relic of a saint hanging in a display case inside the church at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Newman Center was moving on its own.

Some believed it was a miracle. Others thought there was another explanation.

The official word from the Diocese of Lincoln? Nothing supernatural here.

On Wednesday, a viral video spread of a reliquary carrying a relic of St. Gemma Galgani, an Italian mystic canonized in 1940, moving on the nail it hung from, drawing hundreds of thousands of views as debates about its cause unfolded. Relics are physical remains or personal effects of saints.

Some viewers interpreted the moving relic as a divine sign and asked for the intercession

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