saint relics
Vatican issues new rules for relics in saint-making process
By Nicole Winfield — December 16, 2017
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The instructions explicitly rule out selling the hair strands, hands, teeth and other body parts of saints that often fetch high prices in online auctions.
A saint’s brain is stolen and Catholics pray for its return
By Josephine McKenna — June 5, 2017
ROME (RNS) The thief entered the church, named after the 19th century saint in Castelnuovo, near Turin, on June 2, and left with a glass case containing the relic.
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