To: 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.
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:4aWPlOWMJG4J:www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/relg/socialeccltheology/MemoirsofPopularDelusionsV1/chap11.html+bone+relic+%22virgin+mary%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3
Charles Mackay writes that a church in Halle claimed to have a thigh bone of the Virgin Mary. I could have Googled longer, but this seems to contradict the assertion that nobody claimed to have relics which would have come only from a dead body.
jas3
jas3
222 posted on
12/07/2006 10:19:47 AM PST by
jas3
To: jas3
(Sigh.) OK, and I have an ovary of Abraham Lincoln. Obvious hoax, and with no ecclesiastical approval, I double-dog-guarantee it.
238 posted on
12/07/2006 11:28:17 AM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
(Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
To: jas3
(Sigh.) OK, and I have an ovary of Abraham Lincoln. Obvious hoax, and with no ecclesiastical approval, I double-dog-guarantee it.
239 posted on
12/07/2006 11:28:20 AM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
(Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
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