How much you want for it???!!
hee heehee nice. Was he a goalie?
----- Original Message -----
From: John A W Lock <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: I need a clue - the Calcutta Indians bureau
> Dear Dr Reardon
>
> I have a hockey stick signed by Clement IV if you're interested.
>
>
> John A.W. Lock
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: JJ.reardon <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:50 PM
> Subject: Re: I need a clue - the Calcutta Indians bureau
>
>
> > Knowing that I am such a pope freak and love relics ect., my co-worker
> > brought that to my attention today, the mother Tereasa baseball. I would
> get
> > one, even if it was faked.
> >
> > Now, if only there was a baseball signed by the late great Alexander VI
> > (Borgia pope, 1492-1503). I'd kill for that. Or any other possession of
> his.
> > Sayyyy...there is a storeroom in the Vatican for past popes' belongings,
> > does anyone know if that is accessible to scholars or lay people?
wouldn't
> > that be fun...a Vatican garage sale.
> >
> > Wendy Reardon
> > Pope Joan II
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: J. Michael Walker <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 12:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: I need a clue - the Calcutta Indians bureau
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > S. V. Earle wrote:
> > > >on the brisk trade in relics might be nice -- if there is such a
thing.
> > > >
> > > Josef Gulka wrote:
> > > >You might try Patrick J.Geary, <FURTA SACRA: Thefts of Relics in the
> > > >Central Middle Ages> Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,
> > > >repr. 1991.
> > > >as a starting point. The bibliography is ripe with specific studies
> > > >on particular "sacred" objects sought and gathered and 'transacted'.
> > >
> > >
> > > In the "The more things change..." department - -
> > >
> > > Today's LA Times carries a report on the FBI breaking up an enormous
> fraud
> > > ring, based out of the San Diego California area, that specialized in
> the
> > > production and sale of zillions of dollars' worth of counterfeit
sports
> > > memorabilia - photos of athletes with fake autographs, baseballs,
bats,
> > etc.
> > >
> > > Why I bring this news to the List's esteemed attention, is because of
> what
> > > is perhaps the most wonderfully inspired of the ring's works of
fakery,
> > and
> > > a "relic" any number of us would treasure:
> > >
> > > a baseball autographed by Mother Theresa.
> > >
> > >
> > > The meditative, speculative, narrative, and creative possibilities
send
> > the
> > > mind reeling into the outer outfield.
> > > Respectfully submitted,
> > > Magister Levitatorum
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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