The important sounding "
Crusade
for Holy Relics" is a Catholic activist group
with a mission- to pressure Ebay ands its sellers to keep 'first class relics,'
the bits of flesh and bone, teeth and fingernails believed to be the relics
of Catholic saints out of the marketplace. (Second and third-class relics include
clothing or possessions of saints, or objects touched by first class relics.)
The group spends hours combing auction listings looking for listings selling
the prized body bits, which are usually collected hopeful believers for the
miraculous power the objects are believed to possess.
In the end, it seems like a strange avocation, given that it is highly unlikely
that the relics are genuine in the first place- there are enough parts for
sale to put each saint back together seven times over, and that it was the
Church itself that started the dirty business of pawning saints so many centuries
ago.
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So whatever happened to Jesus’ foreskin. Did it also rise on the third day, or might it soon be available on ebay? Hmmm…maybe if I fried the b’jeebers out of an old sausage rind…..
Let me know how that works out, will you?