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...Slivers of this wood are still preserved and venerated in shrines throughout Christendom. In the Middle Ages, the hawking of spurious slivers became a scandal, and it was largely to reassure the faithful that a 19th Century Frenchman, Rohault de Fleury, devoted years to measuring the certified pieces still in existence. Their volume, according to De Fleury, was only 4,000 cubic centimeters, or about 2% of the probable volume of the cross...
Although modern freethinkers have gibed that the extant pieces, put together, would be as big as a battleship, in 1870 a French savant named Rohault de Fleury catalogued the known relics of the Cross, found that their total bulk was less than 4,000,000 cu. mm. By his calculations, the Cross measured...
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