Quote of the day

[chickenfeet]

Bishop Hugh of Lincoln built up a relic collection of fabled size and quality. He needed frisking on leaving any shrine for he was always trying to break bits off bodies, on one occasion biting a fragment out of Mary Magdalene's arm before slipping it to his chaplain in classic pickpocket mode.

David Carpenter The Struggle for Mastery; The Penguin History of Britain 1066-1284 p454

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[albionwood.livejournal.com]

I love that story. Relics: the tulips of the c12.