[UA] Your Next NPC

[Timothy Ferguson]

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> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of mrteapot

> Hmm... reminds me of the medieval scam of selling bones off
> as relics of various saints.  Considering that there are
> multiples of, say, Jesus's skull in various churches in
> Europe, some (at least) must be fake.

No, and no.

There are no churches which claim to have Jesus's skull - he took it with
him when he ascended.  His milk teeth, however, are claimed in various
places.

And as to them being fake - the Church has a doctrine which essentially says
that God cheats.  A relic is a thing that helps attract miracles, regardless
of the source.  So, if I take any old bone and say it belonged to Saint
Vitus, God, being a jokester, might choose to allow miracles near it.  Hence
there are many miraculous bones which can be demonstrated to have no link to
the saint which is said to have donated them.  The best example of this is
the huge pilgrimage site at Compostella in Spain.  So, St James is buried
there?  As in "James, Brother of Jesus, who lived with their Mum in the
Levant and didn't leave during the Book of Acts, and was martyred there?"
Yeah, right.  It also explains why people who have been removed from the
roll of saints, like Christopher, can have had functioning medals.

When it comes to relics - God cheats.  Even inauthentic bones can be
authentic relics.

 Of course, we now
> have some way to check these things to be authentic.
>
> "Movie Stars" he says.  Sounds like my Iconomancer PC's
> gonna be going on an odd sort of quest.
>
> Mr. Teapot
> dealer in fine holy relics for low, low prices
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