Posted on 11/09/2026 4:20:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Bone fragments attributed to Saint Nicolas were stolen from a church in France, then allegedly burned and crushed.
Priests at Saint Nicolas de Port, one of France's few sanctuaries to hold a relic of the saint, reported the theft of a reliquary containing a fragment of the saint's body on November 2.
Police later arrested the suspect, who reportedly admitted acting spontaneously out of a 'desire to destroy' the relic because he viewed devotion to the bones as a form of idol worship.
Saint Nicolas, the inspiration behind Santa Claus, lived between 270 and 343 AD and is famous for inheriting money, giving it to the poor, and, in particular, for the story of how he gave three girls bags of gold to save them from a life of prostitution...
The church desecration comes just weeks before the Feast of Saint Nicolas, which marks the anniversary of his death.
The incident is also the latest in a string of high-profile thefts, vandalism and arson attacks targeting Christian heritage sites across France.
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Another helpful “migrant” teaches the French the errors of their ways. 🙄
…Am I wrong?
Note the suspect was not identified by name.
You can bet your baguette that it was something nine-eleveny.
Someone remind me, how many mosques were raided/robbed/burned during the ‘student protests’?
Wanna bet the perp was a muslim?
St. Nicholas's bones are supposed to be in several different countries:
The remains of St. Nick can be found on multiple continents.
Woody Allen might suggest replacing the relic with the nose of a President.
I think we’ll be ok without them.
They would need to get some DNA from the bones and then find a relative to compare it to, which might not be easy.
A church in Heraklion, Crete, claims to have the skull of St. Titus. A church in Salerno, Italy, claims to have the relics of St. Matthew.
Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales makes fun of fake relics.
There were plenty of them floating around in the Medieval period.
"They would need to get some DNA from the bones and then find a relative to compare it to, which might not be easy."
It would be nice if they could do that. I wish King Charles and Westminster Abbey would allow DNA testing on the bones that are allegedly the Princes in the Tower, especially now that they have the DNA of their uncle Richard III.
They extracted DNA from Cheddar Man, Cheddar Man, a 10,000‑year‑old Mesolithic skeleton found in a cave in Somerset, England. They even found a modern descendant via his DNA, a history teacher living a half-mile away:
10,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found in Britain Has a Modern-Day Descendant Living Close By
I don’t think that they proved that the modern man is a direct descendant of Cheddar Man, just that he is related (same or very similar haplogroup).
I would want a test on the corpse of Queen Elizabeth to solve the question of whether she was really a man.
Cheddar Man? Sounds cheesy.
His bones were found in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, and yes, the large village of Cheddar is known for the cheese they produce, which is usually aged in caves.
Captain Obvious knows the obvious.
Either we admit that we know and do something about or we can look forward to a life of third world crap.
Sorta like France/Uk/Belgium is becoming.
St. Nicholas’s bones are supposed to be in several different countries:
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Like the headS of John the Baptist?
Islam on the march?
A DNA test showed I have more Neanderthal DNA than 80% or 90% of the general population. I’m not sure what to make of that. Star in insurance commercials?
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