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Well it didn’t take long for the abominable Turks to demand that the relics be returned!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8432314.stm

73 posted on 12/28/2009 8:40:50 AM PST by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)

To: eleni121; Cronos; Kolokotronis

Well it didn’t take long for the abominable Turks to demand that the relics be returned!

According to the BBC article:

While Christmas is by and large not celebrated in Muslim Turkey, the Christmas figure of Santa Claus certainly is in the Mediterranean town of his birth.
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Prof Nevzat Cevik, head of archaeological research in Demre, says Saint Nicholas had made it clear during his life that he wanted to be buried in his home town.

Eleni121, do you still feel the bones should be returned to Turkey?

74 posted on 12/28/2009 10:11:15 AM PST by NYer ("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone" - Benedict XVI)

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