Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
by antognini on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:03PM
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It's a little known fact, but the altar in every Catholic church contains relics of a saint. But almost all of them contain relics from relatively modern saints, not the bones of St. Peter or something.
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Re:'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
by majos on Friday March 13, 2020 @08:08PM
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The relics business is way more organized than I thought. There are technically three classes of relics, first (actual remnant of a saint), second (remnant of object belonging to saint) or third (touched a first class relic or a saint’s tomb) [1]. So technically it’s always possible to manufacture more relics.
[1] https://m.ncregister.com/blog/smcafee/i-made-a-third-class-r...