Week's neatest relic

 

lizhand   directs her Fcebook Firends to this notice that the Pope is closing down an out-of-control monastery in Rome, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, that was partying like 1499. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/pope-ousts-loose-monks-rome 

The church was founded to house relics of the True Cross and the Crucifixion brought home by St. Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constanine, and still has a bunch of neat ones, including the usual splinters and nail from the True Cross, but also a bone from the finger St Thomas pushed into the wounds of Christ. Never would have thought of that one. OH gee! Look! It's the finger of Didymus...