Happy Holidays

[kandrathe]

... Nickolaus of Myra, whose bones I actually ended up seeing ...

Isn't it in Ivanhoe that the comment to the effect that if all the pieces of the one true cross were gathered together you'd have quite a forest?

I think John the Baptist has at least three heads.

I find it odd that Catholic alters need to be consecrated by relics in the first place, and then these relics are the assorted body parts of supposedly venerated Christian Saints and martyrs. It's rather morbid. Reminds me of my time in the Capuchin crypts. I wasn't hungry for t-bone after that.