[Mrs. Don-o]

Interestingly, although there was an enormous commerce in relics in the church for twelve hundred years or more, and a very ardent interest in the remains and the tombs of the saints involved literally tens of millions of believers, nobody even claimed to have a relic of Mary: not a bone nor a tooth.

Even from a cynical point of view, if the Christians from, say, 330 AD to 1530 AD had thought it was even remotely possible for there to exist a physical relic of Mary, some entrepreneurial bone-merchant would have come up with a hank of hair or a vertebra. But no. Not a scrap. Nada.

From the day when the Christians emerged from the catacombs, nobody believed that Christ left his mother's body rotting in the earth.

Even if you don't believe that, you certainly shouldn't say the body doesn't count. We all believe in the resurrection of the body.

[Verginius Rufus]

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer has a character with some remarkable relics, including part of St. Peter's sail (from when he was a fisherman), along with a piece of clothing that had belonged to Mary--but no relic of her body.

[jas3]

Interestingly, although there was an enormous commerce in relics in the church for twelve hundred years or more, and a very ardent interest in the remains and the tombs of the saints involved literally tens of millions of believers, nobody even claimed to have a relic of Mary: not a bone nor a tooth.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/relics.html

Actually it looks like lots of folks have claimed to have relics of the Virgin Mary including her breast milk.

jas3