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Given to Argenteuil by Charlemagne a thousand years ago, admitted as a genuine relic by Archbishop Hugh of Rouen in 1156, the Holy Tunic has been zealously guarded down the centuries. Credited with hundreds of miraculous cures, its therapeutic powers were last said to be demonstrated in 1843 when a portion of it sent to the University of Fribourg healed a youth injured in a football game. When its golden reliquary was opened few years later, moths flew out after eating holes in the garment...
...Boylston and Lee Wade speaking contests tonight represent a revival of the lost art of election, long out of place in the American college, relic of an era that cared less for what was said than for how it was said...
...distinction between the A.B. and S.B. degree remains at Harvard as a relic of the time when no liberal education was complete without a generous amount of the classics. In some quarters, notably in England, this belief has defied all the educational developments of the twentieth century. But there are few at Harvard, outside of the classicists themselves, who would still hold that Latin and Greek should be accorded a place of special privilege in the curricula of the secondary schools...
...Venerated as a holy relic, the reputed original veil is annually exhibited in St. Peter's in Rome during Holy Week...
...Pope Gregory XVI sent Georgetown University the holy bones of three Roman Catholic martyrs. Georgetown had tucked the boxes away without opening them. Out in the daylight for the first time in 91 years the bones-teeth, bits of jaw, tibia, femur-were placed in a handsome new relic room in St. William's Chapel. In each box was a time-yellowed "authentic" identifying the saints whose bones the relics once were: Theophilus, Vincentius and Aelius, pagan Romans who became Christian, were martyred about...