OCT 11: OF POPES AND DEAD SAINTS:  ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITY AND THE CULT OF RELICS

Peter and Paul:

"Upon this rock I will build my church":  St. Peter (6th century icon, Mt. Sinai)

Secrets of the Vatican revealed:  the Tomb of St. Peter

Pope Sylvester and the legendary conversion of Constantine:

Papal patronage and the cult of relics:  Pope Paschal I (817-824) and the church of St. Praxedes

Pope Gregory the Great:

The cult of relics:

Forgery:  the Donation of Constantine

Accept no cheap imitations! (warning from a Catholic website on the dangers of buying "relics" from unscrupulous dealers)