[Mom MD]

Seriously. I also read they think there is 3 pieces of the true cross up there. These phony relics are one of the reasons for the reformation. It’s a tragic loss of an historic building though

[pbear8]

I also read they think there is 3 pieces of the true cross up there. These phony relics are one of the reasons for the reformation.

If your church was 2000 years old, you might have pieces of the True Cross. Understand, please, that these are tiny silvers, not huge logs. It is recorded history who and when it was brought from Jerusalem.

[BlessedBeGod]

You just couldn't help yourself, could you. You just had to go and make anti-Catholic remarks on this thread.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

[dangus]

Voltaire famously complained that if all the pieces of the true cross were real, the cross must have consumed all of the forests of Lebanon. But Voltaire was a slanderer and satirist.

In truth, tiny splinters of the True Cross were placed in hundreds of churches, but the combined weight of most all of them would add up to one baseball bat. There are a few much larger pieces.

Think of it: suppose the True Cross weighed 50 kg (110 pounds). Many of the spliters weigh as little as 1/10th of a gram. So, that’s 500,000 potential relics.

OTOH, I doubt that was the main reason anyone protested the Catholic Church.