[Scanian]

Many of us skeptical Protestants suspect that Queen Mother Helena’s tour of the Holy Land in the early 4th Century was the original tourist scam. It seems that whatever she was looking for the local folks seemed to be able to locate “miraculously” and most of it ended up in the hands of the church.

I haven’t heard any tales about what the “guides” got out of it but I doubt they went unrewarded.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Many of us skeptical Protestants suspect that Queen Mother Helena’s tour of the Holy Land in the early 4th Century was the original tourist scam.****

You mean when the Crusaders sacked Constantinople, and took home their loot, amongst which were three heads of John the Baptist, may have been fake! How dare you! ;-)

[goat granny]

I find it hard to believe that a couple of hundred years later some woman found the bones of 3 men that were not know to anyone at the time of their visit...and why would those that know via oral tradition where these bones were laid is just too convientant..I call BS on this tradition..

Lets all go looking for the bones of 3 people born in the 1600's, who's life we know nothing about or where they even lived...not too likely to find the actual bones....