Talking about Death and Pornography II - Relics and Bones (disgusting)

Veneration of relics, saints, and images of saints is big business in Roman Catholicism. Every altar to be consecrated must include a venerable relic of some sort. One church claims to have a vial of the Virgin Mary’s milk in its altar, another a swatch of the swaddling clothes used at Jesus’ birth, another a thorn from the crown that was placed on Jesus’ brow. It is said that there are so many chips of wood form the cross that if they were all assembled together, they would fill a ten-ton truck.

Traditionally, a martyr's relics are often more prized than the relics of other saints. Also, some saints relics are known for their extraordinary incorruptibility and so would have high regard. It is important to note that parts of the saint that were significant to that saint's life are more prized relics.

Current Catholic teaching prohibits relics to be divided up into small, unrecognisable parts. Thus even the many relics that are enshrined in churches and cathedrals worldwide must be at least a finger or small bone, etc. And I’m the fetishist one

Pictures taken in Swiss churches as in Lucerne, Locarno and St. Gallen