[Sca-cooks] Theft of reliquaries and wars
ekoogler1 at comcast.net
ekoogler1 at comcast.net
Wed Apr 5 08:58:52 PDT 2006
Yup...provided Cadfael with a few anxious minutes over whether the casket would get opened to reveal its real contents!
Kiri
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From: Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
> > 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).
>
> --
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
> "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on
> imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
> -- Harry S. Truman
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