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To: vannrox
On display in Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, is
what is reputed to be the hand, forearm, and a piece
of skull from John the Babtist. Don't know where the
rest of him is.......

12 posted on 02/04/2003 7:17:09 AM PST by G-Bear
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To: G-Bear
In Twain's Innocents Abroad there are enough relics in the churches to make four John the Baptists. The crowning touch is the guide announcing "And this is the skull of John the Baptist as a young boy..."

Mrs VS

14 posted on 02/04/2003 9:34:10 AM PST by VeritatisSplendor
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