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The Sacred Relic Business

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 1, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 40.

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The Sacred Relic Business

THE “sacred relic” business was recently somewhat overdone by the English Cardinal Vaughan, as appears from facts furnished by a London paper. The cardinal obtained from France some “genuine” “relics of St. Edmund,” which he received with much ceremony, which was augmented by the reception of a letter of congratulation from Pope Leo, duly sealed with “the Fisherman’s Seal.” A little later it turned out that the relics were not at all what they were supposed to be, and the cardinal has made acknowledgment of the fact. This would be the case with all these “sacred” relics if their true history could be known.