Pam Klainer tipped us off to a website that sell relics or bits of relics depending on your point of view. Something seems distasteful about this:
My sister Wendy found a web site which actually sells Catholic relics, and the site makes much of the authenticity of their items. A rare item with vouched-for provenance such as an Italian Reliquary with a Thread Relic of the Shroud of Turin and Authentics Issued by the Prefect of the Apostolic Sacristy of Pope Gregory XVI and Pius IX in 1846 is on offer for $27,000.
The site is The Russian Store.
Relics according to Catholics cannot be bought or sold, only given away. This is a hoax that should be ignored.
I love this store! The Virgin Mary’s hair, anyone? A snip at $7900! Cheaper than the shroud.
Or piece of the manger? (That comes with a bit of cross, last supper table, two of Jesus’s tunics and stones from holy places). Bone from St John the Baptist? The swaddling cloths of the baby Jesus. It’s irresistible…
I see Simon Magus is still alive and well, Acts 8:9-13, 18-24.
“May your silver be lost forever, and you with it, for thinking that money could buy what God has given for nothing!” v.20