[Red Badger]

I’ve never understood the veneration of relics, bones and preserved body parts....... gruesome and kinda disrespectful, IMHO.............

[knarf]

God understands it;

Exodus 20

And God spake all these words, saying,

2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

[PrairieLady2]

The “Saints” were thought to continue to have thr power of God in them, even in death. Therefore, a Church containing a “holy” relic would have the power of God himself. The saints were thought to be one step closer to God than the ordinary person, so by their relics, those who came in contact with that alter, were extra blessed or empowered by that saint.

[Scrambler Bob]

I’ve never understood the veneration of relics, bones and preserved body parts....... gruesome and kinda disrespectful, IMHO.............
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Rignt.

But let’s look at fossils and dinosaur footprints, etc. that represent ‘real science’.

With that in mind.

I would not be surprised that some body parts of Apostles would have survived to this day.

Not to be worshiped, but as evidence.