[Sca-cooks] Theft of reliquaries and wars

[ekoogler1 at comcast.net]

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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