My husband and I were just looking at the relics on Ebay last night. There are many who are claiming to sell the "true cross," but we know that there are just to many splinters to be true. But where else can someone, who just doesn't have a lot of money, to get articles like these from families or places that won't vernerate them any longer. Is it so bad that we, as a family, would like a relic of someone holy and put it in a place of honor instead of a dresser drawer to be lost forever? Or maybe even thrown away? Maybe God has a purpose for this?
Not true. In 1870, Rohault de Fleury in his "Mémoire sur les instruments de la Passion" (Paris, 1870) made a study of the relics in reference to the criticisms of Calvin and Erasmus. He drew up a catalogue of all known relics of the True Cross showing that, in spite of what various authors have claimed, the fragments of the Cross brought together again would not reach one-third that of a cross which has been supposed to have been three or four meters in height, with transverse branch of two meters wide, proportions not at all abnormal.
But where else can someone, who just doesn't have a lot of money, to get articles like these from families or places that won't vernerate them any longer.
Try asking your pastor.