Dear all:
Perhaps I got this wrong; but I understood the writer of an
earlier posting (I think John Howe) to have suggested the head of the
Baptist referred not to a relic but rather to a head-shaped reliquary. If
there were statues for cults of the Baptist at different stages of his
life this, head reliquaries which also represented him at those stages
would not be such a heterodox notion. Did I misinterpret the sense of this
earlier posting, then?
Cheers,
Martin Howley
On 25 Jul 2000, Christopher Crockett wrote:
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> if i may, it seems to me that the baby teeth of St. Apollonius really aren't
> in the same class as suchlike as "the head of John the Baptist as
> a young boy" or "La Cabeza de Pancho Villa como Nino," a very much
> different level of credulity being involved in the serious veneration of the
> latter.
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