{"id":14582,"date":"2011-10-18T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14582"},"modified":"2011-10-18T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T21:23:21","slug":"holy-relics-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/holy-relics-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy relics in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was in Italy a few years ago, I visited the Basilica of St. Anthony where, proudly exhibited, was St. Anthony\u2019s larynx, the cartilage of which, I was assured, is still incorrupt. I came away from the viewing with the satisfaction inherent in having seen something unusual, if not macabre. Perhaps because I am not a Catholic or perhaps because I was deemed unworthy by the petrified organ, I did not find myself especially edified.<\/p>\n

Others, more pious than I, were genuflecting and raising their eyes to heaven.<\/p>\n

There is nothing new under the sun, so now we have a 21st<\/sup> century relic<\/a>: John Lennon\u2019s tooth; the sacred molar is to be placed on \"\"the altar of Ebay where it will receive contemporary homage, possibly to the tune of three figures:<\/p>\n

One of John Lennon’s teeth is expected to make \u00a310,000 when it is auctioned next month.<\/p>\n

The tooth was given to the former Beatles’ house keeper Dot Jarlett when she worked for him at Kenwood mansion in Surrey in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

He told her to give it her daughter “as a souvenir” after he had pulled it out in the kitchen of the Weybridge property.<\/p>\n

The tooth will be auctioned in Stockport on 5 November.<\/p>\n

Dot’s son Barry Jarlett said: “He was in the kitchen and he had this tooth which he had wrapped in a piece of paper.<\/p>\n

“He said: ‘Dot will you dispose of this’ and then he said: ‘Or, as your daughter’s a Beatles fan, you can give to her as a souvenir’.<\/p>\n

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