If the sunken Russian warship was carrying a fragment of the True Cross, it wouldn’t be the first time Christians have used relics to gain an advantage in war
Religious relics like the Moskva cross are objects that have a particular physical relationship to saints and other religious figures. Often these are bone fragments or the tufts of hair of religious figures , but sometimes they are items that are closely tied to the holy deceased person. Examples of these second-class relics include clothes, jewelry, and significant personal possessions.
In Christian denominations that utilize relics, these items are clearly hierarchized: a relic associated with Jesus, like the True Cross, is considered to be more powerful than a relic of a less-popular saint. These hierarchies extend to body parts: the head of John the Baptist, whichin at least four locations, is special precisely because the New Testament has a whole story about it.
The origins of relic practices are obscure, but arguably the earliest evidence for Christian relic logic comes from the beginning of the third century. Dr. , a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, told The Daily Beast, “We get a glimpse of the origins of such thinking about relics in one of Christianity’s first martyr narratives, theAs that story reaches its climax, a Christian on the cusp of his death turns to his jailor, tells him, ‘Don’t let these things upset you; let them strengthen you,’ then takes the ring off the man’s finger, dips it in his open wound, and returns it to him ‘as a symbol and a memory.
Because relics are associated with saintly individuals and heroes, they very quickly accrued a reputation as sources of deployable power. Pilgrims who visited the shrines of saints weren’t just tourists. Just like those who had visited shrines dedicated to Asclepius or the Delphic Oracle, they were looking for healing and answers. The logic of intensified power mean that relics quickly became protective.
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