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ThomasLite6/25/2019 2:09:50 pm PDT

re: #127 mmmirele

What about the Holy Prepuce? There were a number wandering around in the Middle Ages.

en.m.wikipedia.org

There were similar claims about the head of John the Baptist.

en.m.wikipedia.org

While Erasmus may have been (probably was) joking about pieces of the cross, he no doubt knew of the competing claims by churches with high-class relics. Remember, the Reformation started as an argument about relics. Johann Tetzel was selling indulgences on the border of Luther’s patron, Frederick the Wise, and was cutting into the monies collected by Frederick for indulgences granted by *his* great collection of relics. Luther wasn’t babbling in a vacuum.

Hey, don’t get me wrong - I know most anything to do with relics (certainly before the late 17th century or so) is deeply, deeply problematic. I’m not arguing with that at all.

Just saying that somebody arguing just how problematic RC relics can be should watch out with the whole True Cross thing, since some of those claims are just as much invented out of thin air as the provenance of the relatively reasonable amount of fragments is.
And since you have no problem coming up with at least two much, much better examples, I really don’t think we disagree here?