To: Mrs. Don-o
Interestingly, although there was an enormous commerce in relics in the church for twelve hundred years or more, and a very ardent interest in the remains and the tombs of the saints involved literally tens of millions of believers, nobody even claimed to have a relic of Mary: not a bone nor a tooth.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/relics.html
Actually it looks like lots of folks have claimed to have relics of the Virgin Mary including her breast milk.
jas3
207 posted on
12/07/2006 8:46:15 AM PST by
jas3
To: jas3
OK, right you are: there were certainly hoaxsters who claimed to have a specimen of Mary's milk or Christ's hair. Always highly dubious ---but more to the point: nobody claimed to have relics which would have come only from a dead body. Teeth, yes. Vertebrae, no.
216 posted on
12/07/2006 9:06:19 AM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
("Stand firm and hold to the Traditions"--- 2 Thess. 2:15--- because the Bible tells me so.)
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