Word: relics
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...sainted for anonymous gift giving to needy folk, and nominated a guardian of seafarers. After his bones were removed by Italian raiders to the port of Bari in 1087, prisoners, prostitutes, pawnbrokers and others flocked to his patronage. Soon, every Christian city wanted a piece of him, and relic hunters provided fingers, hair and teeth upon which to build churches. Reaching Amsterdam around 1300, he eventually became a supplier of goodies to kids, as shown in the 1907 postcard at left. And it was Dutch pilgrims who took him to America, where, in 19th century New York City, frothy writers...
...hope Bill Clinton doesn't get any ideas from Philippine President Fidel Ramos, who will auction as a "relic" the lump of cholesterol that doctors recently removed from his right carotid. Proceeds will go to Smokey Mountain--the big garbage dump that is now the site of low-cost housing. No word on whether Sotheby's is interested...
...this has changed. Today if a girl does not choose to abort her pregnancy (and some 45% of teenagers do), chances are she will keep the baby and raise it without the traditional blessings of marriage. "The shotgun marriage is a relic of the past," observes Mark Testa, of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. With teen marriages two to three times as likely to end in divorce, he explains, "parents figure, why compound their mistake?" In 1950 fewer than 15% of teen births were illegitimate. By 1983 more than half were, and in some regions of the country...
...small (64 members), St. Matthews is wealthy enough to raise the estimated $750,000 required to dismantle, pack and ship the 729-year-old limestone edifice. It will be rebuilt in the Corona del Mar area, about half an hour's drive from Long Beach harbor, where another British relic, the retired liner Queen Mary, is berthed...
...alter its detested system of apartheid. The government announced proposals to abolish the pass laws, a complex web of 34 regulations and proclamations that have severely restricted the ability of blacks to move freely within the country. The laws, said an official white paper announcing the reform, are a "relic of the past" and will be replaced by a non-discriminatory program of "planned, positive urbanization." Declared State President P.W. Botha: "Today we have arrived at the emancipation from guardianship of the black and the brown and the rejection of the colonial domination of the past...