(September 2, 2020 at 5:41 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: All this talk of pious frauds reminds me of the joke about a Christian who visits the Holy Land, where a huckster sells him the skull of John the Baptist.
On a second pilgrimage years later, (as usually happens in jokes like this) he is approached by the same conman who again offers to sell him the skull of John the Baptist.
‘You scoundrel!’, says the aggrieved tourist. ‘You sold me John’s skull ten years ago!’
‘Ah, yes. But THIS skull is from when he was a much younger man.’
Boru
Reminds me of an event that took place when I was a 5th grade student at St. Jerome's School in which a small monstrance was passed around the class so all the students could have the privilege of kissing it. It contained a tiny bone fragment, allegedly taken from the corpse of St. Dominic Savio. As I recall, I was not impressed when it was my turn to handle the reliquary and I quickly passed it on to the kid next to me. The nun in charge of the class seemed to be in ecstasy the whole time, but I always considered her to be somewhat of a nut case.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
