[jas3]

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

[Mrs. Don-o]

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.