relics

I have no idea why this is only coming up now (the events described in the story itself occurred in April), but the pan-Syriac group I am a part of on FB just posted about the discovery of various saints' relics in the now-destroyed Church of St. Thomas (Mar Toma) in ISIS-occupied Iraq. It says...

Hey there, I was thinking about the high cost of good vestments and how according to sacred tradition these have to be burned if, for example, the chalice is spilled on them, and it occurred to me, ecclesiastical service items like the chalice and diskos or paten, relics, icons, paraments, and...

Howdy! Do you have a list of relics and their location? I tried looking for any here in Ecuador but it seems they are Roman Catholic.

Do the Eastern Orthodox have to believe that all the relics purported to be from the saints and the apostles truly came from them? Do they have to believe that the icon purported to be from St. Luke was indeed painted by St. Luke?

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the one God. Today is a great day in modern Coptic Orthodox history, and since it directly involves also the Roman Catholic Church, I figured I should share it with you guys here on OBOB. From the synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox...

(1) Does "Reformed" Protestantism (Calvinism, Presbyterianism, Evangelicalism, etc.) have a solid, clear, direct basis in 1st to 3rd century Christian traditions and writings to claim that the Communion food is in itself "only" a symbol* and to reject Jesus' "real" presence in the elements...