"No dust or bones?"
Not a sausage, apparently!
"Wow. Was the crypt damp?"
Haven't a clue. And the priest who told me about it could venture no hypothesis at all.
Maybe Fr. Faber wasn't particularly turned on by relics and didn't want to take the chance?
;)
He was found about ten minutes later in a nearby bush. He was NOT injured seriously, much to everyone's surprise. He filed a workmen's compensation claim later, for which nobody blamed him much . . . :-D
Could be a statement about relics, for sure (do the shoes count as second-class relics? ;-) )