Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Amazing Things You, Yes You, Can Buy on eBay

A reliquary purported to contain fragments of the True Cross, complete with papal seal and certificate of authenticity. Asking price: $2950 USD. No one has bid yet.

Another reliquary purported to contain still more fragments of the True Cross, complete with the papal seal of Pius VI, and certificate of authenticity. High bid for a bit of wood on which the Son of God died? $81.

A reliquary complete with fragments of the crown of thorns that sat on Jesus’ brow, complete with seal and certificate of authenticity. Current high bid: $274.

One would imagine only a limited number of these were made. I think someone somewhere is having a funny on us. But they are rather pretty.

1 comment:

Kevan said...

At one time there were in circulation, if I'm not mistaken, about twenty one index fingers of John the Baptist which pointed while he said "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world."