"There's a kind of cultural fascination with special people who are marked out for greatness but who die young and often in tragic or violent circumstances," says Geary, author of Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2008). Just...
Posts tagged "relics"
Celebrity Relics
From "On the Religious Roots of Celebrity Worship" at Philly.com (Philadephia Inquirer/Daily News):
The Meaning of Relics
If the Pope says it's real... Pope Benedict XVI has declared the Shroud of Turin authentic. Writes Chris Armstrong at Grateful to the Dead:
This also seems a bold move by a pope–to declare something authentic that it is well within the realm of science to later declare a fraud (though so far no...
