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To: NYer

Please forgive the irreverance, but just how many Bits of the True Cross really exist? Over a hundred years ago Mark Twain, that irrasible secular saint, noted that he'd viewed enough True Nails of the Cross to fill a keg or two. The True Cross seems to have divided itself into a venerable forest of crosses; for enough bits exist, that, if you could collect them all you could build a SuperBowl Stadium. I suppose I am in trouble for such thoughts, but then I'm but a Presbyterian.


4 posted on 05/06/2005 7:22:17 PM PDT by PandaRosaMishima (she who tends the Nightunicorn)
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To: PandaRosaMishima
Please forgive the irreverance, but just how many Bits of the True Cross really exist?

Actually, the relics of the True Cross that have some reasonable attestation behind them only amount to about 2/3rds of what we should have.

Over a hundred years ago Mark Twain, that irrasible secular saint, noted that he'd viewed enough True Nails of the Cross to fill a keg or two.

AFAIK, there are only 3.

5 posted on 05/06/2005 7:59:56 PM PDT by Campion (Truth is not determined by a majority vote -- Pope Benedict XVI)
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