[Sca-cooks] Theft of reliquaries and wars

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Oddly enough, I'm reading a book about a similar kind of thing..."The 
> Holy Thief"...it's one of the Cadfael mysteries...a reliquary containing 
> the bones of St. Winifred is stolen from the Abbey church during a 
> flood.  

Of course, if you've read _A Morbid Taste for Bones_ this is *truly* 
funny.

Drew University has quite a collection of Methodist 'relics',
specifically the severed thumb off the body of one of the most famous
Wesleyan preachers (he was buried in an above-ground tomb and people 
kept pinching bits of him until the local pastor rebelled and had him 
reinterred underground).

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