[James C. Bennett]

There are more than a million reasons for the motivation to produce relics at the time, and for the agendas of an entity like the Catholic Church. Even today, members of that church revere and kiss vials of blood and body parts of certain historical figures, including that of the late pope, JP2.

Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Bretone, offers incense to the "holy blood" of the late pope John Paul II.

Where was it said that all the 'relic' fragments of the "True Cross" could form several dozen, if not hundreds, of life size crosses?

Relics are tools of propaganda and it would be foolish, nay, naive, to assume a forgery market didn't exist for the same.

[notted]

Oh, I see. Your nothing more than a common Catholic basher.

Well there it is, No interest on my side, good luck to you sir, I thought we were having a civilized conversation

[lepton]

“Where was it said that all the ‘relic’ fragments of the “True Cross” could form several dozen, if not hundreds, of life size crosses?”

Not that I’m in to relics, but my understanding was that that statement was not an assessment, but merely a supposition.

[Swordmaker]

Where was it said that all the 'relic' fragments of the "True Cross" could form several dozen, if not hundreds, of life size crosses?

I see you like to quote myths as truths or raise strawman questions. The Catholic Church did an inventory of such registered prices of the True Cross about ten years ago and found that there are only sufficient pieces to account for about two-thirds of the patibulem, the cross bar from which Jesus' was hung, the part his arms were nailed to. There is nowhere near enough to build those proverbial chapel, barns, cathedrals, or your dozens or hundreds of full size crosses. By the way, I am not Catholic.