The most remarkable love for articles belonging to Christ and his mother, and for the bones of departed saints and martyrs, sprung up in the fourth century and spread over the world. Every church must have its relic; every village the remains of its protecting saint; and every populous city some bone of an apostle or something consecrated by the touch of the Saviour.
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1Nothing is more characteristic of Rome than the worship of relics. Wherever a chapel is opened, or a temple consecrated, it cannot be thoroughly complete without some relic or other of he-saint or she-saint to give sanctity to it. The relics of the saints and rotten bones of the martyrs form a great part of the wealth of the Church.
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1Roman Catholic pilgrimages, Incense, Holy Water, Rosaries, Relics, scapulars, etc. are all from pagan religions such Hinduism and Buddhism. They oppose the true Gospel.
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