There’s a very funny bit in John Henry Newman’s The Present Position of Catholics, where he quotes a description by an opponent of Catholicism of the service of Benediction in a London church in 1850.
BACOLOD CITY: The monstrance that was reported stolen on Saturday from the Adoration Chapel inside the San Sebastian Cathedral in Bacolod City was returned at the front gate of the church early Sunday, December 31, Fr. Ronaldo Quijano, rector of the San Sebastian Cathedral, said.
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john the baptist s relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom higham and georges kazan have come to the nelson-atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. nice to meet you. nice to meet you. they want to analyze an ancient treasure reputed to be the finger of john the baptist. could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find? well, this is our monstrance containing the relic. it s gilt silver and dates from about the year 1400. what s really exciting about the kansas baptist relic is that for the first time, we re gonna be able to compare the radiocarbon data of this particular relic with the one we ve already obtained from bulgaria. the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. what s interesting about the finger is it s part of a medieval treasure, the guelph treasure, that has connections with the german lord henry the lion.